On 10 December, the Flanders Architecture Institute presents the documentary film about Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz and the mysterious aura surrounding his life and work. The film screening is accompanied by an introduction by director Sven Blume.
Sigurd Lewerentz is one of the most famous Swedish architects, considered a master of the profession internationally. Through his active years in the profession (from 1911 to his death in 1975) his unique solutions were decades ahead of their time. Lewerentz did not want to be filmed or interviewed. His persona, like his buildings, is surrounded by a mysterious aura.
In a cellar in Lund, film reels and audio tapes recorded by the architect Bernt Nyberg with Lewerentz during his last years were discovered. From the cellar, a cultural-historical journey begins, narrated in the documentary Lewerentz Divine Darkness. Here the stylistic traces of Lewerentz within Nordic architecture become palpable, classicism and modernism converge in a poetic brutality that awakens our deepest and most archaic cultural memories.
10.12.2024
20.00h
70 min.
Sven Blume
Laika Film & Television
Swedish and English
Subtitles in EN
DE SINGEL, Music studio
Desguinlei 25
2018 Antwerp
Flanders Architecture Institute and DE SINGEL
the Flanders Government
(FULLY BOOKED)
€10
€8 students
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