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Wim Cuyvers
Le Montavoies – Axonometrie
On the occasion of the long-awaited publication RES NULLIUS (2025), which will be presented for the first time during RHIZOMA, Wim Cuyvers also created the work LE MONTAVOIES – AXONOMETRIE in the MASEREEL workshop.
An axonometric projection is an old-fashioned way of making a three-dimensional drawing of an object or a space. It is a perspective drawing without vanishing lines. The technique was used by architects and designers to quickly create a relatively easy-to-understand image of the spaces or objects they were working on, to show themselves or others. In an axonometric perspective, length, width and height can be measured. Since just about everyone works with computer programmes that generate three-dimensional images, axonometric projections have fallen into disuse.
The drawing that forms the basis of the work endorses Cuyvers’ position that Le Montavoies – a mountain in the French Jura where Cuyvers has been working as a forestier since 2009 – is architecture [= the art of space, space for thinking, outside]. The perspective is drawn on the basis of the land registry plan and uses the meetings of thalwegs, ridge trails, paths and intersecting lines between different surfaces.
LE MONTAVOIES – AXONOMETRIE is a laser print on polyester lime, a dimensionally stable, transparent medium that architects used to draw on to overlay different drawings.
The transparent polyester lime allows Cuyvers to colour the back with coloured pencils. The architectural drawing can then be coloured to make geological, botanical or hydrological characteristics more visible; however, management, maintenance and all kinds of inventories will also steer the colouring of the drawing in the future.
A second version of this edition is augmented with coloured pencils. Please contact us via [email protected] for more information.