Artist:

Ian Kiaer (born 1971, London, lives and works in London)

Description:

A solo exhibition at International Centre for Art and Landscape at Vassivière Island (CIAP) in 2013 that presented Kiaer’s ongoing research project ‘Endless House’, a reference to the Austrian architect and designer Frederick Kiesler.

“Kiesler’s proposal for a single-unit family dwelling remained unbuilt and was continually modified in model form between 1924 and 1950. Kiaer uses Kiesler’s notion to enquire into the model’s potential for representation, experimentation, and proposition, opening up new ways of understanding how an artwork might convey fragmentary and contingent information. […] Significantly, Kiaer’s research investigates the possibility of a ‘model as form’, identifying in it qualities of resistance to more determined approaches of making. Curator Harald Krejci writes in ‘Utopie Gesamtkunstwerk’ (2012) that Kiaer’s works ‘are characterised by artistic interpretation of historic texts and projects, which have essentially shaped the theoretical discourse.’” – RCA website