Louidgi Beltrame’s work is based on documenting modes of human organisation throughout the history of the 20th century. He travels to sites defined by a paradigmatic relation to modernity: Hiroshima, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Chandigarh, Tchernobyl or the mining colony of Gunkanjima, over the sea off Nagasaki. His films - based on the recording of reality and the constitution of an archive - appeal to fiction as a possible way to consider History.

Mécaniques des Roches
2010
Wood, brass Ammonite, altuglas. 31,5 X 47,2 X 15,7 inches.
In the display stand Mécanique des Roches/Mechanics of Rocks are placed, side by side, an ammonite, a natural spiral form, and a sheet of altuglas, a minimalist modern material, cut out along the partitions of the “areas of undulating glass” designed by the composer Iannis Xenakis for Le Corbusier’s architecture in the Dominican monastery of La Tourette at Evreux-sur-l’Arbresle (1954-1957). The progression of the spiral of the ammonite shells is the equivalent of that of the Fibonacci curve, a series tending towards the golden ratio. The Modular scale, that measurement grid drawn up by Le Corbusier for his architecture, is also based on the arithmetic of the golden ratio. To design the “areas of un- dulating glass” at La Tourette, Xenakis used the Modulor propor- tions, which he also did for the Metastasis composition, produced after he had left Le Corbusier’s studi