{"id":6867,"date":"2025-11-13T16:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:20:24","slug":"book-sentinels-iron-portals-of-chicagoland-by-cedric-van-parys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/2025\/11\/13\/book-sentinels-iron-portals-of-chicagoland-by-cedric-van-parys\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentinels, Iron Portals of Chicagoland by C\u00e9dric Van Parys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arch.uic.edu\/garofalofellowship\">Garofalo Fellow<\/a>\u00a0for 2023-2024, Sint-Lucas alumnus\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cedricvanparys.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C\u00e9dric Van Parys<\/a>\u00a0has investigated and transformed the meaning of billboard infrastructures as representative monuments of American culture by juxtaposing and reconciling word, image and object.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of surveys of America littered with commerce and ads, but this is not a project about advertisement. Van Parys is interested in the effect of these steel monopole structures on the people and the (local) urban environments. The billboard&#8217;s monetized side faces the highway and is directed mainly to drivers and passengers. But from every other viewpoint, we see a massive structure that removes part of the sky. Documenting those hyper-functional backsides reveals a monumental sacredness that resembles ancientmonuments such as Native American Totem Poles, Nigerian Shango staffs, or Inuit Inukshuk stone landmarks\u2014all are markers of space.<\/p>\n<p>Initiated by the Architecture and Design Open Archive and designed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lu.liang.319?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWuy0flOSXYP1OnIk0Z2XLng6JRX9n4XFFhoDd6gpuQjeKlRcsvMnnNo67MZXeA8rAvU8LU4WJ_lGKTfX4tPC23aYBXm4roqY2LJd94HE307O1aQlFa5iY8Q0-1p2nvl_Yl4oGYZ0bxjG_OHiTfKqGI&amp;__tn__=-%5DK-R\">Lu Liang<\/a>, this publication is a continuation of C\u00e9dric Van Parys\u2019 artistic research during his 2023\u201324 Garofalo Fellowship at UIC. The publication is both an artist book and a research document. An essay by Sevie Tsampalla (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sevie.tsampalla?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWuy0flOSXYP1OnIk0Z2XLng6JRX9n4XFFhoDd6gpuQjeKlRcsvMnnNo67MZXeA8rAvU8LU4WJ_lGKTfX4tPC23aYBXm4roqY2LJd94HE307O1aQlFa5iY8Q0-1p2nvl_Yl4oGYZ0bxjG_OHiTfKqGI&amp;__tn__=-%5DK-R\">Sevie Tsampalla<\/a>) and a conversation with Paul Preissner generate new insights and meanings.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arch.uic.edu\/events\/book-launch-c%C3%A9dric-van-parys-%E2%80%9Csentinels-iron-portals-chicagoland%E2%80%9D\">Learn more.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>On November 13, 2025, C\u00e9dric&#8217;s exhibition &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbkbxl.be\/exhibition\/cedric-van-parys\">Odysseys<\/a>&#8221; with sculptures, photography and installations opens at the KBK gallery in Brussels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the\u00a0Garofalo Fellow\u00a0for 2023-2024, Sint-Lucas alumnus\u00a0C\u00e9dric Van Parys\u00a0has investigated and transformed the meaning of billboard infrastructures as representative monuments of American culture by juxtaposing and reconciling word, image and object. There are plenty of surveys of America littered with commerce and ads, but this is not a project about advertisement. Van Parys is interested in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6872,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions\/6872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}