“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, […]
Mathias Poledna, Double Old Fashion, 2009
Artist: Mathias Poledna (born 1965 in Vienna, Austria; lives and works in Los Angeles, USA). Materials: 16mm color film; no sound, 20 min. Description: “The point of departure for Poledna’s work is a crystal glassware set designed by Adolf Loos (1870–1933) and first manufactured in 1929 by the Viennese glassmakers L&J Lobmeyr. The so-called ‘bar […]
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 […]
