Ceci n’est pas un escalier. Twiggy e il surrealismo di Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu

Starting from the physical and semantic oxymorons of Magritte’s Surrealism, we would like to reflect on the extent to which the production of the De Vylder Vinck Taillieu studio appears deeply imbued with an innate plurality, which expresses itself in spatial compositions and temporal constructions capable of materializing the disorienting condition of the double (or multiple) and, at the same time, employing it as design strategy. Through an indirect contamination with art, advvt work on the double, on waste, on optical illusions, on non meaning to transform them into true elements of the project, to open up, through their interpretation, to parody, paraphrase and paradox. A sort of modern constructive surrealism all centered on the co-presence of opposites and their double or multiple mirroring. In particular, Twiggy shop in Gent, opened in 2011, condenses and develops, stages and narrates these dynamics, building the material basis that makes their unfolding possible.