30lx by Virgile Simon Bertrand

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Event details: Friday 14 January 2011, 6.30pm – 9pm; 2P Contemporary Art Gallery, Shop 5, G/F, 6-20 Po Tuck Street, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong

30 lx or ‘30 lux’ is the minimum light intensity required by the Buildings Department’s Code of Practice for the Provision of Means of Escape. Constructed using low cost materials, devoid of any ornamentation, these compulsory means of escape are perhaps the purest examples of entropic architecture. Virgile Simon Bertrand’s photographic studies draw attention to an inadvertent phenomenon, how despite the common genesis of these architectural features, each offers subtle but surprising structural variations that give rise to an elegantly minimal formal vocabulary.

30 lx by VIRGILE SIMON BERTRAND | 國瑜策劃 | 2011年1月14日至2月26 | 展覽開幕將於1月14日下午六時三十分舉行, 屆時藝術家與策展人皆會出席

2P Contemporary Art Gallery 誠意呈獻,居港法藉藝術家Virgile Simon Bertrand 的新作展覽――〈30勒克斯〉開幕酒會。

“30 勒克斯” 是根據〈消防逃生途徑守則〉所要求配備的最低光照度。守則採用的措辭如「最低」和「不少於」清晰描繪出一系列的量度、光照度、距離、和結構,這些潛規則都支配了時下制定的消防逃生路線的形式與構成。低成本建造、採用較少保養設備、省卻多餘的裝飾,上述有意識地撇除美學的考慮和功能性元素或許就是建築學中一個最純粹與內儉的例子。Virgile Simon Bertrand簡約且雅致的攝影作品重新發掘被人忽略的社會現象―― 儘管這類建築特色的出現是基於共同的原因,但它們具備微妙且引人入勝的結構性變化,進而構成建築學上正統和核心的語彙。Bertrand 的作品揭示了這類空間矛盾的二元性――無處不在但難以察覺,公眾開放同時又個人私密,一成不變、與世隔絕且拒人千里。