Michel Aubry, Rietveld Chairs, 1998

Top image: Mise en musique de la chaise rouge et bleue de Gerrit Rietveld 1918-1998, 1998 Bottom image: Mise en musique de la chaise droite de Gerrit Rietveld 1924-2000, 2000 Artist: Michel Aubry (born 1959 in Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët, France; lives and works in Paris, France). Materials: Wooden slats and reeds. Description: Versions of Rietveld […]
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Total Transformation, 2019

Artist Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen (b. 1977, Aeroe, Denmark; lives and works in Copenhagen). Materials Exhibition at Galleri Møller Witt, Copenhagen. Paintings, oil on canvas, various sizes. Above: installation view; Deserting Desert Land (2019), 146 x 231 cm; Total Work of Art (2019), 140 x 184 cm; Mood Machine (2018). Description An exhibition of paintings depicting modernist […]
Terence Gower, 5 Notable Pavilions, 2002-05

Artist: Terence Gower (born 1965 in British Columbia, Canada; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Digital video; 2 min; duratrans in lightbox; 81 x 155 x 15 cm; archival corrugated cardboard on platform; 240 x 240 cm. Description: “5 Notable Pavilions is a video and photo study of five 1:50 scale reproductions […]
Barbara Visser, Transformation I & II, 2006

Artist: Barbara Visser (born 1967 in Haarlem, the Netherlands; lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and New York City, USA). Materials: Text and mute computer animation; 5 min and 39 sec. Description: “This work revolves around the critique that the current way of building does not accomodate the multiple social, professional, and psychological changes […]
John Angelo Benson, “Corrupted Classics Collection” Series, 2003-04

Artist: John Angelo Benson (born 1971 in London, England; lives and works in London). Description: A series of reformatted staples of modernist furniture, but with their practical components replaced by uncomfortable and dangerous elements. Le Corbusier’s Grand Confort chair, for example, is made of straw. “On the border between art and design, Benson upholds the […]
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 Description: “The seats of five wheelchairs have been replaced by five […]
Tobias Rehberger, Untitled “Chairs” Series, 1994

Artist: Tobias Rehberger (born 1966 in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany; lives and works in Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany) Documentation: Above: Untitled (Breuer), Untitled (Aalto), Untitled (Judd), Untitled (Rietveld), and Untitled (Breuer), all 1994. Description: “German artist Tobias Rehberger spent two weeks in Yaoundé, Cameroon, at the invitation of the Goethe Institut. He took with him perspective drawings of […]