The Artist | Marc Leschelier

Polimoda presents The Designer & The Artist, a public lecture series exploring the intersections between art, architecture, and contemporary culture. This talk features Marc Leschelier, architect and sculptor, and the artist behind Ancient/New Site, the site-specific installation presented at the Fortezza during Pitti Uomo 109.

Moderated by nss magazine, the lecture is part of a broader dialogue developed in collaboration with Pitti Immagine.

🗓 13 January
🕔 5pm
📍 Polimoda, Aula Magna — Manifattura Campus
🎤 Moderated by nss magazine

About the lecture

Operating between architecture and sculpture, Marc Leschelier challenges the idea of construction as a rational, finished act. His work focuses instead on instability, accumulation, and exposure, reducing architecture to a skeletal, pre-architectural state where forces, tensions, and fractures remain visible.

In this lecture, starting from Ancient/New Site — the site-specific installation presented at the Fortezza during Pitti Uomo — Lescherlier reflects on movement as a condition, identity as an unfinished process, and the role of art as a tool for social and spatial questioning.

Rather than producing monuments, his practice reveals worksites, fragments, and transitional forms — places where meaning is still being negotiated.

Why attend

• To understand architecture not as a finished object, but as a living, unstable system
• To explore how movement, identity, and space intersect in contemporary artistic practice
• To engage with a practice that deliberately rejects polish in favor of raw intelligibility
• To gain insight into the thinking behind one of Pitti Uomo’s most radical site-specific installations
• To experience a rare dialogue between art, architecture, and cultural theory during Pitti

Registration

Free admission: registration required (Seats are limited)

Language: English

Cover image: Marc Leschelier, Photo by Danilo Pavlović.

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A shared project

Although presented as two separate lectures, The Designer & The Artist functions as a single conceptual project.

Together, the talks trace a common line: form as movement, identity as process, and creation as an unfinished state.

For anyone attending Pitti Uomo, these lectures offer a rare opportunity to step outside the fair and enter a space of thought, research, and critical dialogue — where fashion and art are not products, but questions.

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