Annette Kelm, House on Haunted Hill II, 2005
Artist: Annette Kelm (born 1975, Stuttgart, Germany; lives and works in Berlin). Material: C-print 80 x 100 cm. Description: Photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Ennis House”. The title references a 1959 b-movie starring Vincent Price. “The grand building comes across as almost over saturated in Kelm’s photos and the upwards directed perspective implies a reverence […]
Erwin Wurm, “Melting Houses” series, 2005
Artist: Erwin Wurm (born 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria; lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Limberg, Austria). Materials: Resin and paint; various dimensions. Description: A series of resin sculptures depicting melting buildings, including Wright’s Guggenheim, Mies’s Seagram Building, and Paul Engelmann’s Haus Wittgenstein.
Tobias Putrih, When Language Goes on Holiday, 2011
Artist: Tobias Putrih (born 1972 in Kranj, Slovenia; lives and works in Cambridge, USA and Ljubljana, Slovenia). Description: Solo exhibition at Meulensteen Gallery, New York, on view from May 1, 2011 to June 25, 2011. “Rooted in the ideals of high modernism, Putrih’s intricate structures conjure notions of the sublime but infuse them with a […]
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 […]
Victor Burgin, Mirror Lake, 2013
Artist: Victor Burgin (born 1941 in Sheffield, England; lives and works in San Francisco, California, USA). Materials: Digital projection work; 14 minutes 37 seconds. Description: “In Mirror Lake, Burgin contrasts the history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Seth Peterson Cottage, located in what is now Mirror Lake State Park, Wisconsin, with that of the Winnebago culture and […]
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Architecture, 1997
Artist: Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1947 in Tokyo, Japan; lives and works in New York, USA and Tokyo). Documentation: Guggenheim, New York (1997); Fagus Shoe Last Factory, Gropius (1998) Description: A photographic series of blurry shots of famous modernist architecture. “‘Sugimoto traveled around the world to photograph landmarks of modern architecture—not to document them, but to bring […]