Re: photographs on concrete

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From: Kees Brandenburg (ctb@zeelandnet.nl)
Date: 01/31/03-08:29:47 AM Z


Hi Shannon,
Could it be a work by the pritzker prize 2001 winners Herzog & de Meuron?
They use photographic elements in their work, mostly silk screened on
concrete or polycarbonate plates.

<http://209.15.129.143/2001photogallery/pages/105-2.htm>

from this page

"The prefabricated concrete panels are similar to the glass belts of
the groove-windows, and are imprinted thanks to specialised
experience in screen printing. The basis for the motifs for the
prints are photos discovered by the artist Thomas Ruff in magazines
he has accumulated over the years in his private collection. From
this collection he selected the appropriate motifs and arranged them
in the horizontal belts running around the facade. The imprint on the
entire facade unifies the surface; the differences between concrete
and glass seem to be annulled."

Kees

>Last night my partner and I went to a lecture about Swiss
>architecture. We saw a slide of a library in a small town in
>Switzerland that was decorated on the outside with photographs. The
>photographs were somehow embedded in or printed onto concrete!
>there was no question and answer period after the lecture so we
>couldn't find out how this was done. We thought it might be a
>relief sculpture, as it were, perhaps made by a process like
>photogravure where the forms of the concrete had been treated with a
>photopolymer emulsion like on Solarplate, so that the concrete
>retained the impression of the photograph. Also we thought it might
>have been done with Liquid Light, but would Liquid Light be able to
>withstand weathering outside?
>
>If anybody knows anything about this process or this building, we'd
>be interested.
>
>--shannon

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