Toby Paterson, Apollo Reprise (Imaginary Landscape with Pavilion and Pool), 2012
Artist: Toby Paterson (born 1974 in Glasgow, Scotland; lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland). Materials: Acrylic paint applied directly on wall. Description: “The ruin inhabits very different social, economic and historical contexts: the housing schemes for working class of post-industrial England embodied in Victor Pasmore’s design of the Peterlee urban complex and its now dilapidated Apollo […]
“Tomorrow Was Already Here,” 2012
Curator: Julieta González (lives and works in Mexico City, DF). Description: Tomorrow Was Already Here, curated by Julieta González, on view at the Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, DF from August 21st, 2012 to January 27th, 2013. Artists in the exhibition: Julieta Aranda, Carol Bove, Fernando Bryce, Gerard Byrne, Johan Grimonprez, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Július Koller, […]
Simon Starling, Prouvé (Road Test), 2012
Artist: Simon Starling (born 1967 in Epsom, England; lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark). Materials: Truck, Jean Prouvé “Shed” roof section c. 1950. Description: “Based on intensive research and (self-)experimentation, Simon Starling’s works take the form of multipart installations that incorporate technological trappings, films, photography, objects, performance, and publications. With a sharp interest in and […]
Toby Paterson, An Experiment for Total Environment, 2012
Artist: Toby Paterson (born 1974 in Glasgow, Scotland; lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland). Materials: Mixed media. Description: Exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery, December 1-March 3, 2013. “An Experiment in Total Environment examines the fascinating yet flawed legacy of a uniquely daring piece of post-war urban design. It looks at Peterlee beyond the Apollo Pavilion […]
Josiah McElheny, The Uniform Body (after Popova and Rodchenko), 2012
Artist: Josiah McElheny (born 1966 in Boston, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Hand blown and carved grey moir glass, wood, low iron glass, and steel. Description: “McElheny [created] a large and varied body of work that looks at how fashion and modernism have intersected and influenced each other, especially through […]
Jill Magid, The Barragán Archives, 2012-
Artist: Jill Magid (born 1973 in Bridgeport, CT, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Multimedia project. Description: “Magid considers both Barragán’s professional and personal archives, and how the intersections of his official and private selves reveal divergent and aligned interests, as well as those of the institutions that have become the […]
Seher Shah, Radiant Lines, 2012
Artist: Seher Shah (born 1975 in Karachi, Pakistan; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA). Materials: Collages on paper; Archival digital prints; Graphite on paper; Graphite and gouache on paper. Description: “The show takes its title from Le Corbusier’s concept of La Ville Radieuse, The Radiant City, a concept he developed from the 1930ʼs onwards […]
“The Insides Are on the Outside,” 2013
Curator: Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968 in Zurich, Switzerland; lives and works in London, England). Description: “The Insides Are on the Outside” is a group exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist at Casa de Vidro and the SESC Pompéia in São Paulo, Brazil from April to May 2013. “Setting a major art exhibition inside modernist architect […]
Lucy McKenzie, Loos House, 2013
Artist: Lucy McKenzie (born 1977 in Glasgow, Scotland; lives and works in Brussels, Belgium). Materials: Oil on canvas on wood supports; dimensions variable. Description: “In the spring of 2013, Lucy McKenzie made a trompe l’oeil installation after Villa Müller, a house in Prague designed in 1930 by the Austrian architectural polemicist Adolf Loos. Head-height, makeshift wooden […]
Amie Siegel, Provenance, 2013
Artist: Amie Siegel (born 1974 in Chicago, IL, USA; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA). Materials: HD video, color, sound; 40 minutes. Description: “A film work of cinematic scale, Provenance traces in reverse the global trade in furniture from the Indian city of Chandigarh. Conceived in the 1950s by architects Le Corbusier and Pierre […]
