Arboretum: Trees as Architecture

27 September 2021 – 13 February 2022, Arc en rêve, Bordeaux

Curated by Fabrizio Gallanti, Wenwen Cai, Eric Dordan and Leonardo Lella

Photo: Rodolphe Escher.

‘Arboretum’ presented a selection of projects and ideas from different times and places, to reaffirm the architectural nature of trees and highlight the ways in which they have been the subject of architectural reflection. Seven images of architects’ drawings of trees from the Drawing Matter Collection were included in the exhibition.

Charles-Marie Dulac (1865–1898), View of Fontainbleau Forest: preliminary study for ‘La Voie Bénie’ of the ‘Le Cantique des créatures’ cycle, 1894. Pencil, India ink heightened with white chalk, 315 × 480 mm. DMC 1660.