Paysarchitectures is an art and landscape workshop which brings together two partners, Gilles Brusset and Vincenza Provenzano.
A graduate of the National Schools of Architecture of Paris Belleville and Landscape School of Versailles, Gilles BRUSSET works as a visual artist and directs the landscape workshop Paysarchitectures since 2007. In parallel with project management of gardens and spaces public, he carries out artistic projects.
Graduated in Architecture at the Università di Roma Tre and with a Certificate of Higher Studies in Landscape in Versailles, with extensive work experience in various landscape agencies, Vincenza PROVENZANO joined Paysarchitectures in 2017 and joined forces with Gilles Brusset in 2022.
Our team ingeniously interweaves art and landscape, operates shifts and thus passes from one field to another bringing into play different disciplines of construction and planning. From this hybridization emerge landscape sculptures, contextual works revealing the ineffable and offering a unique setting for multiple uses. It thus promotes the infiltration of art into the landscape and its “secularization” through its integration and practice in public space.
Paysarchitectures apprehends the landscape as a vast gardened sculpture. In each place he detects poetry awaiting revelation. He then composes with time, matter and the living to offer a new reading and reinvent the experience.
Our creations are imbued with an aesthetic dimension which reveals the identity of the places, their history and their substrate, underlining their configuration and their materiality. Their expressiveness allows an intuitive apprehension by residents and future users of the forces present and the symbolic and imaginary issues of the sites.
Through their sensitivity to light or the integration of plants, these arrangements cope with time and make them a reserve of successive aesthetic events. Depending on the weather or the lighting, the work is invisible or catches the eye, disappears or calls out to the walker in a sort of dizziness.
In Paysarchitectures’s landscapes, art is not a presence, it appears, and this dazzlingness introduces great poetry into the ordinary.
The aesthetic power of paysarchitectures’s landscapes and their appropriation by users contribute to the influence of the territories in which they are located, constituting destinations in themselves.
“Tranches de Ville” erected in Clichy-la-Garenne was winner of the National Prize for Urban Art in 2014. “L’enfance du pli” installed in Meyrin in Switzerland, finalist for the European Prize for Urban Public Space in 2018 and winner of the LANDEZINE INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE AWARD WINNER 2020, has been the subject of international publications. “The third train”, inaugurated in Compiègne in 2018 on the occasion of the centenary of the armistice of the 1914-18 war, contributed to the influence of the Hauts de France region and won 1st prize at the “EUROPEAN GARDEN AWARD» EGHN in 2021 and the second prize in 2023.
Published on April 8, 2024
