On the occasion of The Corner Show, curated by Wouter Davidts in collaboration with Philip Metten and Mihnea Mircan, Accattone issues a publication on the work of architects Sébastien Martinez Barat and Benjamin Lafore. Intended both as an autonomous object and as appendix to the second issue of the magazine, Accattone #3 is a poster that folds into an 8-page, single-content publication. In ‘Formal Notes on Some Things’, Martinez Barat Lafore collect 137 images and quotations of significance to their conceptual and built work, presented as Sketch-Up renderings, scanned drawings, professional photographs or mobile phone shots. The corner is a theme transversal to their practice: as line, form, wedge, mould or partition. The display also includes the second issue of Accattone and three ‘Sanstitres’ pieces made by La Ville Rayée (David Apheceix, Benjamin Lafore, Sébastien Martinez Barat): modest but intriguing interventions whose status is located between design and raw material, facilitator and leftover. These white polystyrene curves occupy the margins of the gallery space, to the same extent that they appear as marginal figures. Purposefully deprived of an own value, they depend on actual or potential uses as makeshift, threshold or temporary holders.

THE CORNER SHOW
11 Sep – 6 Dec 2015
Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp

Exhibition pictures by Jan Kampenaers and We Document Art