Pierre Bismuth, Complexe des villas / Bâtiment Le Corbusier (maquette), 2010
Artist: Pierre Bismuth (born 1963 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; lives and works in Brussels, Belgium). Materials: Wood, cardboard wood, and paint; Ink on polyacetate. Description: “Pierre Bismuth performs the impossible synthesis between the two faces of Le Corbusier: from the villas blanches to housing projects, with a sense of humor and economy of means that are […]
Rossella Biscotti, Three Performances, 2011
Artist: Rossella Biscotti (born 1978 in Molfetta, Italy; lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands). Description: “Rossella Biscotti sets three performances in Naples. The first one at Pozzuoli, in the area of approximately 30,000 m2 of an industrial plant designed in the fifties by the Neapolitan architect Luigi Cosenza on behalf of Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960). In […]
Dominik Lang, Sleeping City, 2011
Artist: Dominik Lang (born 1980, Prague, Czech Republic; lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic). Materials: Mixed media. Description: “The Sleeping City links two different scuptural approaches with various historical contexts against the background of an intimate family relationship. The presentation connects the works of two authors linked by a personal association, father and son, […]
Sergio Vega, Shanty Nucleus after Derrida 2, 2011-13
Artist: Sergio Vega (born 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives and works in Gainesville, USA). Materials: Laminated Adhesive Vinyl Mounted on Sintra. Description: “The project Shanty Nucleus After Derrida 2, (previously shown at the Museum of the Americas in Washington DC), was inspired by the installation series titled “Nucleus” that artist Helio Oiticica’s made between […]
Runo Lagomarsino, ContreTiempos, 2010
Artist: Runo Lagomarsino (born 1977 in LundRun, Sweden; lives and works São Paulo, Brazil). Materials: Projection of 27 color 35 mm slides; 5 minutes 24 seconds. Description: “ContraTiempos documents the findings of Runo Lagomarsino’s wanderings under the Marquise, a concrete canopy that connects the different buildings in Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx’s 1954 Ibirapuera Park […]
Mauricio Lupini, Stack Chairs, 2011
Artist: Mauricio Lupini (born 1963 in Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Rome, Italy). Materials: Upholstered Gio Ponti “Leggera” chairs. Description: “The series of works Stack chairs Caracas 1, Caracas 2 and Teheran are made with “Leggera” chairs (designed by Gio Ponti in 1951) and reupholstered with fabric impressions of 2011 newspapers from Venezuela and Iran. During the […]
Adrien Missika, Dôme, 2011
Artist: Adrien Missika (born 1981 in Paris, France; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Super 8 film with sound transferred to DVD; 10 min 29 secs. Description: “The Super-8 film Dôme (2011) is perhaps Missika’s most ambitious work to date. Here, an anonymous young man explores a vast domed structure built by Oscar Niemeyer […]
Julião Sarmento, “Silver Lake” series, 2010-11
Artist: Julião Sarmento (born 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal; lives and works in Estoril, Portugal). Materials: Polyvinyl acetate, pigments, acrylic, acrylic gesso, ink, graphite, and silkscreen print on unprimed cotton canvas. Description: “In a new series of collages passages of Wittengstein’s notoriously fragmented philosophical notes on color appear taped to the surfaces flanked by silkscreened images […]
“We Are All Astronauts: Universe Richard Buckminster Fuller,” 2011
Curator: Markus Richter (born 1964 in Trier, Germany; lives and works in Oslo, Norway). Description: Group exhibition at Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Design in Herford, Germany, on view from June 11 to September 18, 2011. Featuring Attila Csörgö, Björn Dahlem, José Dávila, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Michel François, Franka Hörnschemeyer, Lucas Lenglet, David Maljkovic, Hermann […]
“Customary Beauty,” 2011
Curator: Natalia Valencia Arango (Born in Colombia; lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico). Description: Group exhibition at Galerie Mor Charpentier in Paris, France, on view September 10 to October 29, 2011. Featuring Alexander Apóstol, Milena Bonilla, José Dávila, Laura Gannon, Terence Gower, Pablo León de la Barra, and Mateo López. “The notions of proportion, […]
