Cyprien Gaillard, Desniansky Raion, 2007
Artist: Cyprien Gaillard (born 1980 in Paris, France; lives and works in New York City, USA and Berlin, Germany). Materials: Video with sound; 30 min. Description: “The three-part video opens with a static establishing shot of Genex Tower, the colossal, Brutalist style building in Belgrade, Serbia, whose twin concrete towers are connected near the top […]
Swetlana Heger, Animal Farm, 2007
Artist: Swetlana Heger (born 1968 in Brünn, Czech Republic; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Description: Photographs of all the former monuments of Stalin in East Berlin melted down into animal sculptures after 1989. Black-and-white photographs in colored frames. “Starting with concrete fact, Heger quickly delves into a territory that indexes the points at which […]
Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Alphavilles?, 2007
Artist: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (born 1965 in Strasbourg, France; lives and works in Paris, France and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Materials: Hardcover, 180 x 240 mm; 208 pages; images 185 color. Description: “The book is a collection of images of cities and architecture gathered by the artist from all over the world and ordered alphabetically. It starts […]
Marine Hugonnier, “Un coup des dès jamais n’abolira le hasard” series, 2007
Artist: Marine Hugonnier (born 1969 in Paris, France; lives and works in London, England). Materials: 11 collages; 32,4 x 50 cm. Description: A series using different editions of Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés… (1897). Hugonnier alters the text, adding images from the internet into the intervals of the poem. Destructive, anarchic gestures, but also anachronistic: […]
Luis Jacob, A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice, Based on the Choreography of Françoise Sullivan and the Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, 2007
Artist: Luis Jacob (born 1970 in Lima, Peru; lives and works in Toronto, Canada). Materials: Three-channel video installation; 426 x 365 x 240 cm. Description: “Jacob’s work explores the relationship between sculpture and dance, and takes its inspiration from two seemingly disparate art historical sources—the sculpture of British artist Barbara Hepworth, and the choreography of […]
Werner Feiersinger, “Untitled” series, 2007, 2013″
Artist: Werner Feiersinger (born 1966 in Brixlegg, Austria; lives and works in Vienna, Austria). Materials: C-prints; variable dimensions. Description: Series of photographs of projects by Le Corbusier. “The precision with which Feiersinger executes his works is matched by the scope of his… engagement with a given architectural or artistic canon. These are taken mostly from […]
Sadie Murdoch, “Mirrored Photomontage” series, 2007
Artist: Sadie Murdoch (born 1965 in the United Kingdom; lives and works in London, England). Materials: Eight archival pigment prints on fine art paper mounted on conservation board; variable dimensions. Description: “Mirrored Photomontage, Part One and Mirrored Photomontage, Part Two were photographed with a Single Lens Reflex camera and color negative film. Using analogue photography, […]
Domenèc, Superquadra casa-armário, 2007
Artist: Domenèc (born 1962 in Mataró, Spain; lives and works in Mataró). Materials: Wood, blankets and plastic objects; two prototypes measuring 220 x 80 x 65 cm each. Description: “A scaled down recreation of two buildings in the huge blocks of residential housing in Brasília, called superquadras or giant blocks of houses; designed by Lucio […]
Arni Haraldsson, The Goldfinger Project, 2007
Artist: Arni Haraldsson (born in Iceland; lives and works in Vancouver, Canada). Description: “The Goldfinger Project explored social utopian ideology through the photography of Brutalist architecture. “The project documents both fictional and factual narratives across a wide range of media from one of Brutalism’s key exponents and a leading figure of the Modern Movement; Ernö […]
Judi Werthein, The Functional Family, 2007
Artist: Judi Werthein (born 1967 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives and works in Buenos Aires and Brooklyn, New York). Materials: Single channel video, HD, color, sound; 13 min. Description: A performance recorded at the site of The Sonneveld House—considered an emblematic historic example of Nieuwe Bouwen, the Dutch branch of functionalism—Werthein’s film reenacts an uneventful day […]
