yes, ingmar bergman would have carved first and foremost a devil for the big cathedral on the plains, long before an angel! but he would have worked for the cathedral! if only the cathedral was still being built, with that fervor the middle ages knew!
if art is a revenge on an unsatisfactory life, the devil ingmar bergman would have carved would have represented what?
a longing? a rapture? a supreme dissatisfaction? a maliciousness? a fear?
god apparently didn't speak to bergman. at least not until monday, july 30th, 2007. or at least not in more explicit terms than to the child alexander. that is, as a threat and as a mystery, mainly.
so, how would the house of disbelieving belief look like? or, the house of believing disbelief? how else to put the complexities of ingmar bergman's movies into words?
as a knight or not, ingmar bergman wanted faith and knowledge, in the 'desolate' landscape of his island and on this 'desolate' landscape a modest house still is, austere, gray, perfect.
the house of ingmar bergman.
we ask you to explore the same theme[s], with the same passion and the same infinite precision his movies have. design the house of someone who cannot live without god and who cannot live with [not with the inherited god of a tradition not any longer alive]. design the house of existential discomfort, to use cioran's words.
plunge into despair, and re-emerge, anew, maybe smilingly.
please send your works in any form and any size [as well as your inquiries] to icarch gallery, 709 washington street, evanston, chicago, usa, 60202, or electronically to: [email protected] competition email : [email protected]
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