Enjoy three EPFL campus sculptures from home
'Aileiotrope' by Antoine Poncet © 2020 EPFL
The College of Humanities culture program, led by Véronique Mauron, has recently published videos showcasing three of the campus's 19 permanent works of art, in collaboration with EPFL Mediacom. The short, informative videos, narrated in French, allow viewers to enjoy the art and culture of EPFL even during confinement.
Figur III is a sculpture by Hans Aeschbacher, created in 1961 and loaned to EPFL by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture. It measures 260 x 50 x 50 cm and was installed on the Diagonal in December, 2019.
Aileiotrope is a sculpture by Antoine Poncet, and was bought by EPFL during an exhibition at the Fondation Gianadda de Martigny in 1992. Initially installed on the Diagonal, it was moved to ArtLab just after the building's inauguration at the end of 2016. The sculpture measures 270 x 200 cm and is made of an extremely smooth, white marble. A second work by Antoine Poncet (La Pulpeuse) joined it in 2019, just a few metres away.
La Pulpeuse is a sculpture by Antoine Poncet, created in 1973 and loaned to EPFL by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture. It measures 203 x 205 x 105 cm, and was installed in December 2019 under an arch of the campus's emblematic Rolex Learning Center building.