At the Institute for Theory and History of Architecture gta of the Higher Technical School of Zurich ETH, the exhibition of Kudryashov and Merkley, conceived and designed by Alexander Brodsky and Marie Kremer, is still open. The curator of the exhibition is a doctoral student of the Institute Markus Lähteeenmäki.
Alexander Brodsky
exhibition design author:
“I had a unique opportunity to organize an exhibition of two of my friends - Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkley, people whose work has had a huge influence on me for many years,” Brodsky says. - One of them is my favorite artist, the other is my favorite architect. I first saw the work of Oleg Kudryashov in 1968 in Moscow and first met him in 1988 in London. The book with the architecture of Peter Merkley first came into my hands in 2002 in Moscow, and I met him in 2012 in Basel. I was not left with the thought of the inner relationship of these people, that they are made of the same test, which was confirmed when they met in 2014 in Moscow.
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zooming 1/7 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 2/7 Peter Merkley Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 3/7 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 4/7 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 5/7 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 6/7 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 7/7 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
Each of them seems to me to be a planet with its own gravity system, absolutely independent of any other objects in space. Their total intransigence and inner freedom evoke in me a delight bordering on awe. I am proud of my friendship with these people and I am happy that I can organize their joint exhibition in a place where it will certainly be appreciated."
Markus Lähteeenmäki
exhibition curator:
“In the center of the exhibition space there is a box divided into two parts, inside of which there are drawings and models of the architect Peter Merkli. The exhibition technique contributes to the depiction of the movement of a lonely planet, capturing the stages of drawing, research and modeling through which Merkley's architectural imagination develops. Comparison of the drawings, in which the search for form and composition takes place, with larger design drawings and models, reveals the process of translating an idea into real architectural objects.
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zooming 1/11 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 2/11 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 3/11 Exhibition "Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli". Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 4/11 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 5/11 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 6/11 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 7/11 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 8/11 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 9/11 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 10/11 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 11/11 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
The rest of the space is occupied by works by Oleg Kudryashov, made using the dry needle technique. Every thought and body movement is cut and reproduced on paper. Powerful lines create windows to worlds in which the line sets its own rules for its own architecture.
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zooming 1/4 Exhibition "Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli". Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 2/4 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 3/4 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 4/4 Exhibition “Planetarium: Oleg Kudryashov and Peter Merkli”. Maria Kremer, A. Brodsky bureau, design Photo © Yuri Palmin
In the foyer near the gallery is located 1/8 of the pavilion for vodka ceremonies of Alexander Brodsky. This copy, created by Anton Gorlenko in collaboration with Anton Gribanov, reproduces the pavilion built for the Art-Klyazma festival in 2003. The pavilion is made up of 83 inward-facing windows and thus turns the basic architecture parameters inside out. Instead of a room in a landscape, it becomes a landscape in a room. Placing a 1: 8 replica, along with construction documents and photographs of the original pavilion taken by Yuri Palmin, draws the viewer to questions of scale and tension between landscape and interior.
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zooming 1/9 1: 8 REPLICA. A replica of Alexander Brodsky's "Pavilion of Vodka Ceremonies" on a scale of 1: 8. Anton Gorlenko, Anton Gribanov, photographs by Yuri Palmin Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 2/9 1: 8 REPLICA. A replica of Alexander Brodsky's "Pavilion of Vodka Ceremonies" on a scale of 1: 8. Anton Gorlenko, Anton Gribanov, photographs by Yuri Palmin Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 3/9 1: 8 REPLICA. A replica of Alexander Brodsky's "Pavilion of Vodka Ceremonies" on a scale of 1: 8. Anton Gorlenko, Anton Gribanov, photographs by Yuri Palmin Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 4/9 1: 8 REPLICA. A replica of Alexander Brodsky's "Pavilion of Vodka Ceremonies" on a scale of 1: 8. Anton Gorlenko, Anton Gribanov, photographs by Yuri Palmin Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 5/9 1: 8 REPLICA. A replica of Alexander Brodsky's "Pavilion of Vodka Ceremonies" on a scale of 1: 8. Anton Gorlenko, Anton Gribanov, photographs by Yuri Palmin Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 6/9 1: 8 REPLICA. A replica of Alexander Brodsky's "Pavilion of Vodka Ceremonies" on a scale of 1: 8. Anton Gorlenko, Anton Gribanov, photographs by Yuri Palmin Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 7/9 1: 8 REPLICA. A replica of Alexander Brodsky's "Pavilion of Vodka Ceremonies" on a scale of 1: 8. Anton Gorlenko, Anton Gribanov, photographs by Yuri Palmin Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 8/9 1: 8 REPLICA. A replica of Alexander Brodsky's "Pavilion of Vodka Ceremonies" on a scale of 1: 8. Anton Gorlenko, Anton Gribanov, photographs by Yuri Palmin Photo © Yuri Palmin
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zooming 9/9 1: 8 REPLICA. A replica of Alexander Brodsky's "Pavilion of Vodka Ceremonies" on a scale of 1: 8. Anton Gorlenko, Anton Gribanov, photographs by Yuri Palmin Photo © Yuri Palmin
A planetarium is a device that expands our understanding and shows us something that we usually do not see. He is able to compress eternity into the space of one room and turn it into an endless landscape, in which the boundaries between the past, present and future, between the process and the object, become blurred. The planetarium in the gta Exhibitions gallery also has these qualities - it shifts attention from the celestial sphere to the universe on an architectural scale. ***
Oleg Kudryashov - artist, born in 1932, studied at the art studio at the House of Pioneers (1942-47), at the Moscow Children's Art School. I. E. Grabar (1949-1951). After three years of study at animation courses at the Soyuzmultfilm studio (1956-1958), he was admitted to the Moscow organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR (1961). In 1974 he was forced to emigrate, since 1997 he again lives in Moscow. See interview with Art magazine, 2012.
Peter Merkley - was born in 1953, Swiss architect, works in Zurich. Studied architecture at ETH from 1972 to 1977. In 1978 he founded his workshop in Zurich. He taught design and architecture (IEA) at the Higher Technical School of Zurich, since 2013 he has been collaborating with the Moscow school MARCH as a freelance teacher. Merkley's buildings are characterized by a laconic brutal approach, often a combination of sculpturally torn structures with simple materials, mainly concrete. Among the iconic buildings of the architect is the "house of art" La Conguinta 1992, built in 1992 in the small Tissin town of Giorniko, where sculptures and reliefs by Hans Josephson are exhibited. Merkley has built quite a few residential buildings in Switzerland. He is also the author of the reconstruction of the Basel Cathedral organ, the Im Birch school house in Zurich, the Novartis visitor center in Basel, the Picasso-haus office building there, and others.
