Filip Dujardin

This is a collection of photographs which I stumbled upon during one of my many expeditions across the pixellated nether-regions of the hyper-terminal. The minimalist architectural forms and the stark colouration of these images make for some beautiful compositions. The Belgian Photographer Filip Dujardin ‘combines photographs of parts of buildings into new, fictional, architectonic structures’ (Mark Magazine).

The idea of ‘reconstitution’ in Art is something I find perpetually fascinating. It is heard in music in the processes of sampling and remixing anothers work into a new and original work. The artist samples pieces of three dimensional  architecture which he then combines into the most  wonderful 2-D images.

From Mark Magazine:

Every montage, says Dujardin, is one project. It begins with an idea for a specific image. Often he starts off by building a model of the form he is trying to achieve – at first in cardboard, but he has recently discovered SketchUp. He then goes on a photo safari, often just around the corner, to find suitable buildings ‘with a lot of the same things,’ so that they can be cut and pasted and serve as building material. In fact most of the fictional structures are buildings in Ghent, just resampled.

He works outside the confines of physics, a problem which architects cannot avoid. In doing so he does not take away from the ‘reality’ of the architecture- at first glance these images may easily be mistaken as actual buildings-instead he seems to incorporate a common visual language that we all possess, just without the boring mathematical formulae needed in order for buildings to ‘stand up’.

‘Perhaps the works come out of frustration. That I actually want to play at being an architect, instead of only recording the buildings of others.’ (Mark Magazine)

http://www.filipdujardin.be/