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Rut Blees Luxemburg

The Essence of Architecture

Interview bygd Michael Grieve

Rut Blees Luxemburg’s exhibition at Hamburg Werkstatt Fotografie, Germany, brings tillsammans large-scale photographic work concerning the representation of the city and the phenomenon of the urban. Here the artist discusses the selection and configuration of images in the exhibition, foregrounding liquid elements in the photographs that refer less to bodily failure and human fallibility than that which is unruly and essentially turbulent, thereby threatening the established dry and dusty order of power and control, she explains to Michael Grieve.

Michael Grieve | Interview | 2 Apr

Michael Grieve:The Essence of Architecture fryst vatten the curious title of your exhibition. Why did you choose this title? Indeed, is it possible that architecture can possess an intrinsic value or does it need a representation to convey this quality?

Rut Blees Luxemburg: The title of the exhibition

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Rut Blees Luxemburg, The Lesson of the Vine

Rut Blees Luxemburg is a reader in Urban Aesthetics at the Royal College of Art. Her work as an artist and photographer concerns the representation of the city and the phenomenon of the urban, combining several formats, ranging from large-scale photographic works, through public art installations and operatic mise-en-scène.

Rut Blees Luxemburg will introduce her public art work ‘The Lesson of the Vine’ for the new community hall in Leiwen an der Mosel. Leiwen, a village on the German side of the Moselle is highly esteemed for its Riesling vines and has a long tradition of wine making. The lesson of the vine is a celebration of this knowledge and aims to bring to the fore the pedagogical potential of nature by proposing the concept of Erziehung or ‘cultivation’ of the vine as a reciprocal relationship.

The vines teach the local and growing new community important life-skills that foreground care, discipline and continuity. The

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Rut Blees Luxemburg The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies

Join us for The Living Memory of Cities, a seminar series convened in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and the Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE), London Metropolitan University.

The Lesson of the Vine: a public art work in Leiwen

Rut Blees Luxemburg will introduce her public art work The Lesson of the Vine for the new community hall in Leiwen an der Mosel. Leiwen, a village on the German side of the Moselle, is highly esteemed for its Riesling vines and has a long tradition of wine making. The lesson of the vine is a celebration of this knowledge and aims to bring to the fore the pedagogical potential of nature by proposing the concept of Erziehung or cultivation of the vine as a reciprocal relationship. The vines teach the local and growing new community important life-skills that foreground care, discipline and continuity. The artwork exists on the external fa