Arata Isozaki was een Japans architect gekend omwille van gebouwen zoals het brutalistische ‘Oita Medical Hall’ (1959-1960).
Rust zacht Arata.
Tag Archives: 1931
RIP Dominique Lapierre (1931 – 2022)
Dominique Lapierre (1931 – 2022) was een Frans schrijver gekend voor boeken als Is Paris Burning? (1965).
De titel verwijst naar een gefrustreerde Hitler die – toen hij doorhad dat hij Parijs wel eens zou kunnen verliezen – de opdracht gaf Parijs af te branden, met de grond gelijk te maken. In de stijl: ‘als ik het niet kan hebben, dan zal niemand het hebben.’
Hij liet bommen plaatsen op alle Parijse bruggen en op heel wat monumenten. Waarom die niet ontploften, weet ik niet.
De film – er is ook een film – is vooral interessant omdat je er heel wat ontvolkte Parijse locaties in kan zien.
RIP Lee Bontecou (1931 – 2022)
In de Verenigde Staten overleed Lee Bontecou. Ze werd 91.
Ze was een beeldhouwer. Beeldhouwster zeg ik liever niet. Haar werk van gelast staal had its Giger-achtig.
Rust zacht Lee Bontecou
RIP Mikhail Gorbachev (1931 – 2022)
Gorbachev died. Normally I don’t do anything about politicians. But Gorbachev was important as one of the last great communist leaders. Yet I can’t find a clip showing the man in question. I do have one where Ronald “we don’t need no rerun” Reagan exhorts Gorbachev to urgently tear down the Berlin wall.
Stating that out loud seems rather bold, but the Soviet Union was probably already on its last legs at the time, a corpse on the verge of death, and Reagan was just kicking in some open doors.
RIP Philip Baker Hall (1931 – 2022)
Philip Baker Hall was an American actor.
A character actor, he was known for his collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson in such films as Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999).
RIP Walter Abish (1931 – 2022)
Walter Abish was an Austrian-born American writer known for such novels as Alphabetical Africa (1974) and How German Is It (1980).
RIP Margarita Lozano (1931 – 2022)
Margarita Lozano was a Spanish actress known for her parts in Viridiana (1961, Luis Buñuel) and A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Sergio Leone).
RIP Monica Vitti (1931 – 2022)
Monica Vitti was an Italian actress best known for starring in L’Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961) and L’Eclisse (1962).
These films were directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
RIP Alvin Lucier (1931 – 2021)
Alvin Lucier was an American composer, perhaps best-known for his piece I Am Sitting in a Room (1969). That piece is a reflection on resonance and generation loss.
RIP Sylvano Bussotti (1931 – 2021)
Sylvano Bussotti was an Italian composer and poet known for such pieces as Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor (1959).
A piece of the “sheet music” of that composition is reproduced in A Thousand Plateaus (1980).