Artist:
Luisa Lambri (born 1969 in Como, Italy; lives and works in Los Angeles, USA).

Materials:
Series of laserchrome prints.

Description:
A photography series around Niemeyer’s Casa das Canoas (Niemeyer’s own house built in 1953 in Rio de Janeiro) and Casa do Baile, a dance hall in Belo Horizonte and built by the architect in 1942.

“Luisa Lambri’’s work consists of photographs of great works of architecture of the modern era. But she is neither a documentarian, nor a specialist in architecture, nor even, exactly, a photographer, even though she has mastered each of these practices and emulated their strategies. Her work is not about the architecture per se: we do not see a building as a whole; we know nothing of the floor plan; her spaces are not occupied. Lambri’’s terrain is perception: light and its effects on the senses; shape, line, volume, and their interaction; the relationship of inside and outside, and of culture and nature. As such, she brings the classic interests of modern abstraction to a contemporary viewpoint, connecting her most directly to lineages of modern painting and postwar environmental sculpture.”
—”Untitled (Casa de Baile), 2003,” website of the Instituto Inhotim.

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