ISBN-13: 9789056624828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str.
ISBN-13: 9789056624828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str.
When Joep van Lieshout (b. 1963) founded the art and architecture studio that bears his name, he set in motion what has been described as -a new Dutch architectural style... dirty, delicious and direct.- Now Atelier Van Lieshout is 10, and the first major monograph devoted to it, A Manual (1997), has been sold out for years. This new overview brings readers into AVL's contrarian applied art via luxuriously appointed -mobile homes, - autonomous communes and surreal art projects, with equal time given to AVL-Ville (2001), a -free state- in Rotterdam's port, complete with its own flag, its own constitution and its own currency, and the revealing minutia of AVL's portfolio, from furniture to the -Bar Rectum, - a perverse take on the Oscar-Meyer Weiner Mobile. The idea of art that can be used for a self-sufficient and independent lifestyle hits a uniquely high point in AVL-Ville, a culmination of all the work AVL has done before. And it lives on: After a successful and tumultuous year of work, AVL has recently located its first AVL-Ville export product in Park Middelheim in Antwerp: the AVL Franchise Unit. This richly illustrated survey tracks AVL's serious and often provocative portfolio through a crucial period in its growth and development.