Marthe Wery - Architecture - 2006

This book continues a thread of exchanges that began around the creation of a work by Marthe Wéry for the new Théâtre Le Manège in Mons, and were interrupted by the artist’s sudden death. These exchanges sought to prompt reflection on the relationships between Marthe Wéry and architecture that remained unfinished—and, by extension, on the notion of a “dead end” within the perpetual, vital search through form. The theme of incompletion led us to create a kind of document, composed of material deliberately impoverished by the very incompleteness of these attempts.
A tribute to Marthe Wéry (1930–2005), a painter whose work engages in “curious and questioning relationships” with architecture. Devoted to the problem of pure color—as distinct from the concept of monochrome—Marthe Wéry is presented here in keeping with her own ambition: to think through painting.