Album Architecture - Abidjan
François-Xavier Gbré, Baptiste Manet, Martial Manet
With texts by Issa Diabaté, Baptiste and Martial Manet, Suzanne Vogel-Tolstoï
This is not an architecture book but a photography book on an architecture that expresses itself through diversity. It is a book that intends to offer a photogra-phic view of buildings in Abidjan that bear the imprint of a certain «tropical modernism».
More precisely, Album Architectures, Abidjan is the testimony of an encounter between two individuals who live and share an aesthetic and emotional attach-ment to the lagoon city. Issa Diabaté, architect, contemporary actor of the architectural future of this city that never stops reinventing itself. François-Xavier Gbré, a photographer who has made architecture his preferred medium for apprehending the muted history of places by envisaging architectures as the sedimen-tary traces of the social and political changes of a country, the Ivory Coast.
This book, and the Album Architecturescollection more broadly, aims to initiate a reflection on the defini-tion of the notion of contemporary heritage through the valorisation of rich and singular architectural lands-capes, not always identified, often invisibilised, of cities in perpetual urban change.
The publication is sold along with a print. Each print is a limited edition of 10, numbered and signed on the back by the artist. All prints are the same size (240mmx320mm). The prints are sold unframed.
Book
Editorial direction: Claudia Mion
Graphic design: Spassky Fischer
Pages: 128
Format: 24 x 32
Prints
Artist: François-Xavier Gbré
Format: 24 x 32 cm
Copies: 6 prints, limited and signed edition of 10
To order limited prints : claudia.mion@caryatide.org
