Louidgi Beltrame, Brasilia/Chandigarh, 2008
Artist: Louidgi Beltrame (born 1971 in Marseille, France; lives and works in Paris, France). Material: Video; sound; 26 min Description: “Two architects dreamed of building the ideal city: Oscar Niemeyer created Brasilia in the middle of the Brazilian Mato (Savanna). Le Corbusier went to India to build Chandigarh. Both cities sit like futuristic, concrete mementos […]
José Dávila, Lo universal bajo la forma del concreto, 2011
Artist: José Dávila (born 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico; lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico). Materials: Archival pigment prints. Description: “Dávila’s practice has explored spatial occupation and the transitory nature of physical structures. Drawing on his formal training as an architect, Dávila creates sculptural installations and photographic works that simultaneously emulate, critique, and pay homage to […]
Luis Úrculo, Covers/Versions, 2011
Artist: Luis Úrculo (born 1978 in Madrid, Spain; lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico). Materials: HD video; color; 6 min 41 sec. Description: “Covers is an investigation about architecture as a consumption object or souvenir and its relation with the domestic non-specialized language of everyday things. The work is a reconstruction and review of […]
Michael Wesely and Lina Kim, Archive Utopia: Project Brasilia, 2012
Artist: Michael Wesely (born 1963 in Munich, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Lina Kim (born 1965 in São Paulo, Brazil; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Color and black and white photographs and archival images. Description: “Brasília, the capital of Brazil, formally dedicated in 1960, seems more like an architectural myth, a […]
Simon Starling, “Bowls, Plates, and El Eco,” 2015
Artist: Simon Starling (born 1967 in Epsom, England; lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark). Description: An exhibition held at the Casa Estudio Luis Barragán and the Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, DF in 2015. “A new photographic project specifically developed by Starling, for the context of the Luis Barragán House and Studio, consisting of […]
Pedro Reyes, Baby Marx Stage Design, 2009
Artist: Pedro Reyes (born 1972 in Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico). Materials: Mixed media installation Description: “The action takes place in a library. It is a mid-century functionalistic building notable for its post-war austerity. If you look closely you may recognize some features which have been borrowed from famous architectural […]
Jonathas de Andrade, Designing the opening of a home as it could be, 2009
Artist: Jonathas de Andrade (born 1982 in Maceió, Brazil; lives and works in Recife, Brazil). Material: Model board and 11 photographs Description: “A destroyed model board of a house from the modernist tropical modernist repertoire is linked to photographs that record the looting and destruction of this home. The work suggests destruction as a project […]
Juan Araújo, Casa Luis Barragán, 2010
Artist: Juan Araújo (born 1971 in Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal). Materials: Oil on wood. Description: “The images by Juan Araújo are a deep reflection on the painting-architecture relationship that is often expressed through the binomials of fiction/reality; the two-dimensional /three-dimensional and non-materiality /materialization. Yet his game of associations does not end […]
Juan Araújo, Residencia Milan 1, 2010
Artist: Juan Araújo (born 1971 in Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal). Materials: Oil on wood. Description: “Residencia Milan 1 is a painting of a house surrounded by lush forest. The image depicted is both photorealistic and creates the illusion of an unfolded piece of paper, with creases and discolorations. In referring to […]
Tamar Guimarães, Canoas, 2010
Artist: Tamar Guimarães (born 1967 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark). Materials: Digital color video, with sound, transferred from 16mm film; 13 min 30 sec. Description: “Canoas focuses on the preparations for a cocktail party at Casa das Canoas – the house Oscar Niemeyer built for himself in the early 1950s. […]
