26th Brno Biennial 2014 / official opening - From A to B to C

From nature studies and academic manuals to the concept of the child as artist, and the many translations of the line during the Bauhaus, drawing has played a very important role in the exploration and development of new educational models.

From A to B to C borrows its structure from When Form Has Become Attitude - And Beyond, a text by professor Thierry de Duve. Using the ABC as a catalyst to generate a cartographical line-scape, the exhibition will try to illustrate three educational paradigms - A the Academy, B the Bauhaus, and C the Contemporary - by placing them in a spatial dialogue.

As if taken from Pestalozzi's Table of Unit, the square will gradually and proportionally divide itself into smaller units, forming a visible grid that will constitute the frame of the exhibition. From the larger to the smaller unit, the generated net will serve as a support for historical references and examples, which will become the main elements of a playful narrative.

With its walls turned into blackboards for the occasion of the 26th Brno Biennial, the Atrium of the Moravian gallery will be transformed into an imaginary classroom, space for observation, experimentation and speculation.

Conceived by Rudy Guedj (FR)