Cura’s Garden - Ben Thorp Brown illustration insbesondere aus dem umfangreichen Privatarchiv

insbesondere aus dem umfangreichen Privatarchiv

The essence of “semi-architecture

reclaiming the ordinary and elevating it to a common practice of architectural quality – first imagining a new way of living and then designing the very spaces that will be used and inhabited by this new life

Ellen Gallagher

Wiel Arets

Cura’s Garden - Ben Thorp Brown illustration insbesondere aus dem umfangreichen PrivatarchivIn 2023, American artist Ben Thorp Brown opened Curas Garden, a long term, immersive exhibition set in the medieval garden of Kunsthal Gent, a former Carmelite monastery. Expanding on the Roman myth of Cura, the project brings together a theatrical assortment of trees and other flora, fog, sculpture, and soundelements that cohere into a dense, indeterminate sensorial experience. This richly illustrated volume, organized around the seasons, features