Stefan Brüggemann, The World Trapped in the Self (Mirrors for Windows), 2011
Artist: Stefan Brüggemann (Born 1975 in Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in London, England and Mexico City, Mexico). Materials: Mixed media installation. Description: “Stefan Brüggemann—facing up to the intimidating challenge of showing in Barcelona’s Mies van der Rohe Pavilion—follows the famous maxims less is more and the God is in the details. In order […]
Ryan Gander, Samson’s Push, or No. VI / Composition No.II, 2011
Artist: Ryan Gander (born 1976 in Chester, England; lives and works in London, England). Materials: Custom colored LACK Ikea side tables. Description: “Gander created a new group of works that evoke a re-interpretation of modernism in a contemporary context. The paintings, sculptures, and installations refer, now and then in a playful manner, others to the […]
Christian Andersson, From Lucy With Love, 2011
Artist: Christian Andersson (born 1973 in Stockholm, Sweden; lives and works in Malmö, Sweden). Materials: Mixed media installation. Description: From Lucy With Love invites visitors to a limbo between modern utopia and a surrealist dream in the form of a monumental sculpture. In the middle of the exhibition space is a sort of incomplete timeline, […]
Stephen Prina, As He Remembered It, 2011
Artist: Stephen Prina (born 1954 in Galesburg, IL, USA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and Cambridge, MA, USA). Description: “The origin of Los Angeles-based artist Stephen Prina’s installation As He Remembered It is a memory from the 1980s of walking down La Brea Avenue with fellow artist Christopher Williams and seeing in a […]
Sharon Lockhart, Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol, 2011
Artist: Sharon Lockhart (born 1964 in Norwood, MA, USA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA). Materials: Five-channel film installation (35mm film transferred to HD); continuous loop. Description: “Since the 1990s, Lockhart has memorialized specific, quotidian moments in particular communities using film and photography. She discovered [Israeli dance composer and textile artist Noa] Eshkol’s […]
Liz Glynn, On the Museum’s Ruin (Morris Hunt–Corbusier–Piano), 2011
Artist: Liz Glynn (born 1981 in Boston, MA, USA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA). Materials: Mixed media. Description: “Glynn’s work uses objects and actions to explore the ambition of empire and the ‘pleasure of ruin,’ often incorporating themes of growth, possibility, and decay. “Glynn was intrigued by the materials that resulted from […]
Chto Delat, Study, Study and Act Again, 2011-14
Artist: Chto Delat [What Is to Be Done?] [Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Nina Gasteva, Artiom Magun, Nikolay Oleynikov, Natalia Pershina/Glucklya, Alexey Penzin, David Riff, Alexander Skidan, Oxana Timofeeva, Dmitry Vilensky] (collective founded in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Russia). Materials: Mixed-media installation. Description: 2013 installation at Tate Liverpool in the exhibition “Art Turning Left.” First presented in at […]
Armando Andrade Tudela, Sedimento, 2012
Artist: Armando Andrade Tudela (born 1975 in Lima, Peru; lives and works in St. Etienne, France and Berlin, Germany). Materials: Wood. Description: “The artwork Sedimento [Sediment] makes reference to the chairs designed for children by Lina Bo Bardi for the lounge area at SESC Pompéia, São Paulo. Tudela has [rescaled] the original design, transforming it […]
Laura Lima, “Wheelchairs” series, 2011-14
Artist: Laura Lima (born 1971 in Minas Gerais, Brazil; lives ad works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Materials: Knoll Saarinen Arm Chair, Eames Lounge Chair, Red and Blue Rietveld, Le Corbusier lc1 armchair, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh Willow Chair; each placed on wheelchairs. Description: “The seats of five wheelchairs have been replaced by five […]
Victor Burgin, Bir okuma yeri / A Place to Read, 2011
Artist: Victor Burgin (born 1941 in Sheffield, England; lives and works in San Francisco, California, USA). Materials: Wall text and digital image projection, color, silent; loop duration 4 minutes 5 seconds. Description: “In recent years, Burgin’s photographic, textual and video works have been primarily reactions to cities and buildings that he has visited. The buildings have […]
