Dorit Margreiter, Original Condition, 2006
Artist: Dorit Margreiter (born 1967 in Vienna, Austria; lives and works in Vienna, Austria). Materials: Newspaper clippings on cardboard in 12 parts. Description: “Original Condition, of which Margreiter made three series in 2006, comprises small-format real estate advertisements for family homes and mansions designed by renowned male architects, among them Victor Gruen, Frank Lloyd Wright, […]
Veronika Kellndorfer, Silver Lake, Lautner 2, 2008
Artist: Veronika Kellndorfer (born 1962 in Munich, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Material: Single panel silk-screen print on glass Description: “First through painting and then through photography, Kellndorfer has introduced a body of work whose focuses on the ephemeral nature of architecture and space. Her new body of work, featured in the main […]
Xavier Veilhan, “Architectones,” 2012-14
Artist: Xavier Veilhan (born 1963 in Lyon, France; lives and works in Paris, France). Materials: Mixed media installation. Description: “The site-specific exhibition follows installments at two icons of French concrete culture, Le Corbusier’s Unité d’ Habitation and the L’église Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, as well as Konstantin Melnikov’s seminal but […]
“Yesterday’s Tomorrows,” 2010
Curator: Lesley Johnstone (lives and works in Montreal, Canada). Description: “Why have so many contemporary artists returned in recent years to the forms, ideas and aspirations of Modernist architecture and design? “This question lies at the heart of Yesterday’s Tomorrows, an exhibition that brings together works by ten Canadian and international artists who examine Modernism […]
Dorit Margreiter, 10104 Angelino View Drive, 2004
Artist: Dorit Margreiter (born 1967 in Vienna, Austria; lives and works in Vienna). Materials: 16 mm film, color; 6 min 56 sec. Description: A film based on John Lautner’s Sheats-Goldstein Residence (1963), documenting its movable features. The house was used in many movies as hub for villains. Basic impulses and desires are expressed in modernist […]
