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Alain Bublex
1961
Born in La Mulatière, France in 1961.
A graduate of the Beaux-arts de Mâcon and the Ecole Supérieure de Design industriel in Paris, Alain Bublex was an industrial designer at Renault up until 1992, when he decided to dedicate his full time to his artistic practice.
Alain Bublex is quickly drawn to the city, the activity it concentrates and the density of its architecture. The “Plug-in City” series corresponds to the revival of a project from the 1960s created by UK architect Peter Cook. In order to cope with the problem of saturated urban areas, he suggested creating mobile housing units, that is to say, individual living units which could be attached to pre-existing housing: for example, prefabricated houses on freestone buildings, or canvas tents on glass skyscrapers. After his imaginary town “Glooscap” project, Bublex breathes visual life into this slightly madcap utopia, into this perpetually shifting town, via a photo montage.
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Alain Bublex
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