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Torben Weirup has written and Jens Lindhe has photographed a monograph on the works of the artist Ingvar Cronhammar.Ingvar Cronhammar's art contains a side that is often overlooked - his work with architecture. This work represents an incredibly important contribution to the ongoing debate about the whole basis and meaning of architecture.The book identifies this special field in text and images that are not the familiar images, but new photographs that show Cronhammar's impact, clarity and purity. In art and in architectural spaces - and in collaboration with a large number of architects.Weirup explains the well-known and the many - many of which have never been published before - works in relation to Cronhammar's entire oeuvre.The book's preface:Richard Serra was asked in an interview by a - perhaps a little too fresh - interviewer why he had never become an architect instead of a visual artist. The answer came with a wicked look in the camera's eye: "Plumbing!"Because there are so many things architects are forced to think about - things that don't help the work, but often cloud it. Perhaps even so radically that there can never be a work of art, only a building - a roof over your head, dry socks, a place to sleep. Ingvar Cronhammar is one of the few artists who understands the architect's reality and knows how to navigate the limitations and circumstances and still be able to maintain the work character that is the quality of visual art. Perhaps this is the reason why Cronhammar's life's work to date contains so many works of architectural size and quality. It seems to come easily to him, even though the process from idea to finished building or installation does not exempt him from having to answer on behalf of visual art, and therefore the same anxiety-filled process that is the dark shadow side of visual art.Cronhammar's work with the architectural is about control. Control over the site, which is scanned and lived in and interpreted. Then control over the technique, followed by the materials, and finally control over the craftsmen who execute the work. The mentality of the work and the ability to express himself sharply and consistently does not leave Cronhammar as he establishes control. It seems as if the purely artistic development of a work is fueled by the constraints of the site, technique, materials and craftsmanship. As with the best architects, but the result is still visual art. As a practicing architect, it is therefore inspiring to follow or uncover the causes and effects in the development of a work when it - as with Cronhammar - has the architectural as its starting point. On behalf of the architectural profession, it is both inspiring, but also a little shameful, to see how an artistic and creative readiness like Cronhammar's can drive the architectural to the brink of the mental abyss that the best visual art masters.Shameful precisely because so much building art remains construction far from the artistic abyss, far from the radical spatialities that should be architecture's core competence.Inspiring, therefore, are the many collaborative projects Cronhammar has entered into with both building and landscape architects. Because all the architectural constraints have been circumvented, and the projects have ended up in places they would not have ended up if Cronhammar had not pushed the work and decisions close to the abyss.Cronhammar's radical work with the architectural has been the reason for this book. The photographer has therefore had the architectural clearly in mind as an essential point while the photographs found their narrative logic. But Cronhammar's work can, after all, only be fully explained through the lens of visual art, so this is precisely what the book's author identifies. Jens Bertelsen, architect maa and publisher, September 2008The author Torben Weirup has been an art and architecture critic for Berlingske Tidende since 1989, and the author of books on various visual artists, including Tróndur Patursson, BjørnNørgaard and Thomas Kluge.The architectural photographer and architect maa Jens Lindhe has photographed for a large number of books, and for his work he has received the Fogtdal Photographer Award, a diploma from Foreningen for Boghaandværk, been selected for Årstidens Bog, received Dreyer's Architecture Prize, the Danish Swedish Cultural Foundation's Annual Prize and the Papyrus Prize. The Academy has awarded Jens Lindhe the Thorvald Bindesbøll Medallion.The book is published with support from:The Danish Arts AgencyThe Realdania FoundationMargot and Thorvald Dreyer's FoundationLillian and Dan Fink's FoundationHelle Mau Jensen og døtres almennyttige fondMidtjysk Skole- og KulturfondHerning KunstmuseumNordjyllands KunstmuseumBornholms KunstmuseumSydbank Sønderjyllands Fond

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Torben Weirup has written and Jens Lindhe has photographed a monograph on the works of the artist Ingvar Cronhammar.Ingvar Cronhammar's art contains a side that is often overlooked - his work with architecture. This work represents an incredibly important contribution to the ongoing debate about the whole basis and meaning of architecture.The book identifies this special field in text and images that are not the familiar images, but new photographs that show Cronhammar's impact, clarity and purity. In art and in architectural spaces - and in collaboration with a large number of architects.Weirup explains the well-known and the many - many of which have never been published before - works in relation to Cronhammar's entire oeuvre.The book's preface:Richard Serra was asked in an interview by a - perhaps a little too fresh - interviewer why he had never become an architect instead of a visual artist. The answer came with a wicked look in the camera's eye: "Plumbing!"Because there are so many things architects are forced to think about - things that don't help the work, but often cloud it. Perhaps even so radically that there can never be a work of art, only a building - a roof over your head, dry socks, a place to sleep. Ingvar Cronhammar is one of the few artists who understands the architect's reality and knows how to navigate the limitations and circumstances and still be able to maintain the work character that is the quality of visual art. Perhaps this is the reason why Cronhammar's life's work to date contains so many works of architectural size and quality. It seems to come easily to him, even though the process from idea to finished building or installation does not exempt him from having to answer on behalf of visual art, and therefore the same anxiety-filled process that is the dark shadow side of visual art.Cronhammar's work with the architectural is about control. Control over the site, which is scanned and lived in and interpreted. Then control over the technique, followed by the materials, and finally control over the craftsmen who execute the work. The mentality of the work and the ability to express himself sharply and consistently does not leave Cronhammar as he establishes control. It seems as if the purely artistic development of a work is fueled by the constraints of the site, technique, materials and craftsmanship. As with the best architects, but the result is still visual art. As a practicing architect, it is therefore inspiring to follow or uncover the causes and effects in the development of a work when it - as with Cronhammar - has the architectural as its starting point. On behalf of the architectural profession, it is both inspiring, but also a little shameful, to see how an artistic and creative readiness like Cronhammar's can drive the architectural to the brink of the mental abyss that the best visual art masters.Shameful precisely because so much building art remains construction far from the artistic abyss, far from the radical spatialities that should be architecture's core competence.Inspiring, therefore, are the many collaborative projects Cronhammar has entered into with both building and landscape architects. Because all the architectural constraints have been circumvented, and the projects have ended up in places they would not have ended up if Cronhammar had not pushed the work and decisions close to the abyss.Cronhammar's radical work with the architectural has been the reason for this book. The photographer has therefore had the architectural clearly in mind as an essential point while the photographs found their narrative logic. But Cronhammar's work can, after all, only be fully explained through the lens of visual art, so this is precisely what the book's author identifies. Jens Bertelsen, architect maa and publisher, September 2008The author Torben Weirup has been an art and architecture critic for Berlingske Tidende since 1989, and the author of books on various visual artists, including Tróndur Patursson, BjørnNørgaard and Thomas Kluge.The architectural photographer and architect maa Jens Lindhe has photographed for a large number of books, and for his work he has received the Fogtdal Photographer Award, a diploma from Foreningen for Boghaandværk, been selected for Årstidens Bog, received Dreyer's Architecture Prize, the Danish Swedish Cultural Foundation's Annual Prize and the Papyrus Prize. The Academy has awarded Jens Lindhe the Thorvald Bindesbøll Medallion.The book is published with support from:The Danish Arts AgencyThe Realdania FoundationMargot and Thorvald Dreyer's FoundationLillian and Dan Fink's FoundationHelle Mau Jensen og døtres almennyttige fondMidtjysk Skole- og KulturfondHerning KunstmuseumNordjyllands KunstmuseumBornholms KunstmuseumSydbank Sønderjyllands Fond

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