2011 Architectural Association Gallery London 5.11.2011-14.12.2011
GOD & CO
François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble
Opening in November 2011, the AA School of Architecture will present an exhibition of the work of the French Montreal-based artist and architect François Dallegret (1937–). Dallegret’s own life and work denies anything so predictable as a neat synopsis, but in essence his work, beginning in Paris in the late 1950s and early 60s, and later taking in New York and Montreal, absorbs everything from intricate line drawings for a series of astrological vehicles and designs for a number of machines (from those that assist in cooking a meal to others that generate literature) to the A Home Is Not a House collaboration with the critic Reyner Banham; a drugstore/gallery in Montreal; proposals for a new Montreal Palais Metro; designs for chairs, more cars and yet more machines; a film collaborative set up to shoot a western; contributions to the Montreal 67 Expo; engraved bars of soap; subversive credit cards; ‘ironique’ villas and light installations. Examples of all of this work will be on display in the AA Gallery in the form of drawings, photographs, films, cars, an illuminated flagpole and a small cosmology of objects designed and produced by François Dallegret from 1957 to the present day.
2011 Architectural Association Gallery London 5.11.2011-14.12.2011
François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble
Opening in November 2011, the AA School of Architecture will present an exhibition of the work of the French Montreal-based artist and architect François Dallegret (1937–). Dallegret’s own life and work denies anything so predictable as a neat synopsis, but in essence his work, beginning in Paris in the late 1950s and early 60s, and later taking in New York and Montreal, absorbs everything from intricate line drawings for a series of astrological vehicles and designs for a number of machines (from those that assist in cooking a meal to others that generate literature) to the A Home Is Not a House collaboration with the critic Reyner Banham; a drugstore/gallery in Montreal; proposals for a new Montreal Palais Metro; designs for chairs, more cars and yet more machines; a film collaborative set up to shoot a western; contributions to the Montreal 67 Expo; engraved bars of soap; subversive credit cards; ‘ironique’ villas and light installations. Examples of all of this work will be on display in the AA Gallery in the form of drawings, photographs, films, cars, an illuminated flagpole and a small cosmology of objects designed and produced by François Dallegret from 1957 to the present day.
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GOD & CO abbreviated catalogue: Here
Edited by Alessandra Ponte, Laurent Stalder and Thomas Weaver
Selection of 24 publications out of 384 pages of the catalogue
1 . GOD & CO Architectural Association
2 . Exposition Iris Time 1962
3 . Pyramide / Pyramide détail Pétrole Progrés 1962
4 . Exposition Iris Time 1963
5 . L’Introconversomatic Bizarre 1963
6 . CliclaCrocoTartoMatic Encyclopédie des farces et attrapes 1964
7 . Cover Industrial Design 1968
8 . Le Drug Architectural Forum 1965
9 . Le Drug Domus 1966
10 . Le Drug Architecture Canada 1967
11 . A Home Is Not a House Art in America 1965
12 . Art Fiction Art in America 1966
13 . Cover Parallel 1967
14 . Cover ArtsCanada 1968
15 . Cover Vie des Arts 1972
16 . Dallegret Domus 1967
17 . Poster Aspen Conference 1968
18 . Photo Shunk-Kender Other Scenes 1968
19 . GOD & CO Shell Credit Card 1969
20 . Fun House Esquire 1969
21 . DIEU & CIE Savon Mieldieu 1969
22 . “conceptual architecture” Cover Design Quaterly 1970
23 . Certificate of Excellence for GOD & COMPANY 1974
24 . Catalogue back cover François Dallegret Design – Quaterly 1970
Extrait du film de Jacques Giraldeau “La Toile d’Araignée” 1979
National Film Board of Canada / Office National du Film du Canada