French artist Loris Gréaud invites us into his light-filled, bunker-like studio, the final project of late architect Claude Parent – watch the exclusive film
Eaubonne, an unassuming suburb north of Paris, is not where you’d expect to find a brutalist bunker by the late architect, rising up like a shark fin in a sea of stucco houses. But Eaubonne also happens to be the home of artist Loris Gréaud, who thrives on the unexpected.
The French art dealer Yvon Lambert, who represented Gréaud and exhibited Parent’s drawings, arranged the meeting. Gréaud remembers being very nervous. ‘I entered and saw a small man who was very elegant, funny, chic. I tried to explain my idea as clearly as possible: “I would like to commission an architecture of the mind that an actress can walk around in and record her cerebral activity.” He didn’t say yes right away.’ Two weeks later, Parent asked Gréaud to come back.
Gréaud at the studio in an ‘LC4’ chaise longue, by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, with his cats Erwin and Erwin, named after Schrödinger and his famous thought experiment ‘Naad [Parent’s wife] asked us to bring the model. I entered the room and he mistook me for a young architect working on the project. He said, ‘Ah, that’s the building the artist commissioned. Bring it here. Now, you’ll have to fix this slope…’ He didn’t recognise me, but he recognised the work, and the things that needed to be corrected.’ Parent died shortly afterwards, in 2016.series, 2014, hang above cabinets displayingThe design of the building, a concrete bunker, is simple in theory.
A long, narrow window slashes through a corner of the zinc-clad building. Before cutting the window, the concrete specialists required that Gréaud sign a liability waiver, as they thought it would crumble under six tonnes of concrete Now that the studio is complete, Gréaud has further plans for the rest of the 1,050 sq m property. His team will continue to work in the original studio next door, which he himself designed. Behind it, his current house will become an exhibition space for what he refers to as ‘immersive installations’.
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