Espacio versus pintura mural: Felix Aublet y Robert Delaunay en el Pabellón del Aire de la Exposición Internacional de Paris, 1937

Abstract

This article deals with the link between architecture and murals in the Palais de l’Air at the International Exhibition of Art and Techniques that took place in Paris in 1937. In the entrance hall, concepts such as dynamism and simultaneity were transferred to a spatial and artistic concept by the art group Art et Lumière, led by the painter Robert Delaunay and the architect Felix Aublet. The wonder experienced at the progress made in aero dynamism in this historic context drove the passing of the pictorial to the architectural with the aim of abolishing measurable space, turning its role from a Cartesian one to a phenomenological one, thus favouring the ubiquity of architecture.