Renée Green, Americas: Veritas, 2018
Artist: Renée Green (born 1959, Cleveland, OH, USA; lives and works in Cambridge, MA). Description: A video essay in which the artist “positions Le Corbusier’s Cambridge-situated Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in dialogue with his Casa Curutchet, located in La Plata, Argentina, as the architect’s only two built structures in the Americas (despite Le […]
“The Way We Live Now, Modernist Ideologies at Work”, 2015
Curator: James Voorhies (lives and works in U.S.) Description: Modern architecture had high aspirations—no less than a radical change in the structure of society, or so was the hope of modernist architects. Figures such as Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Adolf Loos pursued ideals of progress, rationality, and purity in their architecture, design, […]
“Display Show”, 2015
Curator: Gavin Wade (b. 1971, lives and works in the U.K.) with Céline Condorelli and James Langdon Description: This exhibition project will be unfolded through an enquiry into forms of display, including an ongoing survey of radical display practices from the twentieth century, such as those of Franco Albini, Lina Bo Bardi, Frederick Kiesler, El […]
“Condemned to be Modern”, 2017
Curator: Clara Kim (lives and works in London, U.K.). Description: “Condemned To Be Modern” is an exploration of the lives of buildings and an interrogation of our built environment-the structures we inherit, the cities we live in. Taking its title from the preeminent Brazilian critic Mario Pedrosa’s infamous statement about Brasília, this exhibition brings together the works of […]
Ryan Gander, “The Artists Have The Keys”, 2014
Artist: Ryan Gander (born 1976 in Chester, England; lives and works in London, England). Materials: Exhibition at the house of Ernö Goldfinger, 2 Willow Road, Hampstead, London Description: Inspired by the furniture and fittings that Ernö Goldfinger designed for 2 Willow Road, Gander created new works to be interspersed with the collection inside the […]
Terence Gower, “Havana Case Study,” 2016
Artist: Terence Gower (born 1965 in British Columbia, Canada; lives and works in New York City, USA). Description: “‘Havana Case Study’ is the second in a series of installations that use American diplomatic architecture as a tool to analyze US international relations (the first work in the series is Baghdad Case Study), and is based on two […]
Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis, Paraíso Ocupado, 2010
Artist: Wouter Osterholt (born 1979 in Leiden, the Netherlands) and Elke Uitenuis (born 1977 in Sneek, the Netherlands). Description: “(Portuguese for ‘Occupied Paradise’) is a reconstruction of a failed modernist plan for an urban center located in the West zone of Rio de Janeiro. This plan, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, was officially approved in 1970 […]
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 […]
Jorge Pedro Núñez, Electric Tatlin, 2011
Artist: Jorge Pedro Núñez (born 1976 in Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Paris, France). Description: Rendition of Vladimir Tatlin’s 1915 counter-reliefs. “I am interested in combining and juxtaposing different historical referents that derive from diverse places and times, and which coexist in an object. My work is related to drawing, sculpture, and painting rom […]
Tobias Putrih, When Language Goes on Holiday, 2011
Artist: Tobias Putrih (born 1972 in Kranj, Slovenia; lives and works in Cambridge, USA and Ljubljana, Slovenia). Description: Solo exhibition at Meulensteen Gallery, New York, on view from May 1, 2011 to June 25, 2011. “Rooted in the ideals of high modernism, Putrih’s intricate structures conjure notions of the sublime but infuse them with a […]
