Sadie Murdoch, “Mirrored Photomontage” series, 2007
Artist: Sadie Murdoch (born 1965 in the United Kingdom; lives and works in London, England). Materials: Eight archival pigment prints on fine art paper mounted on conservation board; variable dimensions. Description: “Mirrored Photomontage, Part One and Mirrored Photomontage, Part Two were photographed with a Single Lens Reflex camera and color negative film. Using analogue photography, […]
Damián Ortega,”Skin” series, 2006-07
Artist: Damián Ortega (born 1967 in Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City and Berlin, Germany). Materials: Leather, thread, tattoo ink, graphite on paper, and board; display dimensions variable. Description: “Ortega’s Skin works belong to a series of sculptures based on modernist residential architecture. Using natural cow leather, he has replicated floor plans of apartments […]
Knut Henrik Henriksen, Scale of Proportions which makes the Bad Difficult and the Good Easy, 2006
Artist: Knut Henrik Henriksen (born 1970 in Oslo, Norway; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Wooden beams, planks, and Styrofoam panels. Description: “Knut Henrik Henriksen’s works are equally driven by a search for mathematical harmony and potentially endless structures, while also remaining conscious how the introduction of universal standards seem to have fuelled the […]
Corey McCorkle, Tower of Shadows, 2006
Artist: Corey McCorkle (born 1969 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Film; 3 min. Description: “Tower of Shadows, as a final meditation on the incontestable utopian poster-city of [the twentieth century], in spite of and perhaps because of the abject state of its incompletion, serves as a […]
Thomas Florschuetz, Untitled (Ronchamp), 2005
Artist: Thomas Florschuetz (born 1957 in Zwickau, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: C-print. Description: Collaged series of photographs of various angles of Le Corbusier’s Notre-Dame-du-Haut.”The Bauhaus in Dessau, the Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut by Le Corbusier in Rochamp and one of the classic buildings in the London district of Belgravia—these are the places […]
Domènec, Unité Mobile (Roads are also places), 2005
Artist: Domènec (born 1962 in Mataró, Spain; lives and works in Mataró). Materials: Modified remote-controlled truck; 160 x 64 x 19 cm and video projection; 10 min. Description: “Intervention in the interior of the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, February 25, 2005. Video recording of the remote-control unit circulating freely in the corridors, elevators and roof […]
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 […]
Caspar Stracke, Rong Xiang, 2008
Artist: Caspar Stracke (born 1967 in Germany; lives and works in New York City, USA). Material: Color video; sound; 8 min 34 sec. Description: “Rong Xiang is a work on architectural replicas, piracy and its consequences. It is a comparison of Le Corbusier’s chapel Notre Dame Du Hautin Ronchamp, France with its exact replica in […]
Isa Melsheimer, Dachgarten/Raum, 2010
Artist: Isa Melsheimer (born 1968 in Neuss, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Concrete, metal, and cypress Description: “Using very different mediums such as concrete, embroidery, and gouache, the artist strives to bring to the forefront a rather surprising result, for the apartment made by Le Corbusier is actually close to a surrealistic […]
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 […]
