Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Chandigarh Book, 1996
Artist: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (born 1965 in Strasbourg, France; lives and works in Paris, France and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Materials: Collage on plexiglass; 13 plates, each 25 x 25 x .3 cm. Description: Photographs of Le Corbusier’s architecture in Chandigarh, India. “For me being in Brasilia and Chandigarh is like coming home. I recognise the architecture […]
Clegg & Guttmann, The Open Music Library: Project Unité, Firminy, Decontextualized: A Community Portrait, 1993–2005
Artist: Clegg & Guttmann [Michael Clegg and Martin Guttmann] (duo founded 1980 in New York; live and work in New York, USA; Berlin, Germany; and Vienna, Austria). Materials: Wooden shelf, 69 audio tapes, tape recorder, seven color photographs; 238.99 x 134.01 x 67.01 cm. Description: A scale model of the Unité d’habitation at Firminy with compilation cassette tapes […]
Martha Rosler, How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? The Unité d’Habitation de Le Corbusier at Firminy, 1993
Artist: Martha Rosler (born 1943 in New York, USA; lives and works in New York, USA) Materials: Video; color, sound; 31 min 18 sec. Description: Video interviews with residents about Unité as a “failed” architectural project, plus statistics. The video shows their attempts to normalize the architecture, for example by adding wallpaper. Rosler says that […]
“Project Unité,” 1993
Curator: Yves Aupetitallot (born 1955 in the Loire Valley, France; lives and works in Grenoble, France) with Christian Philipp Müller (born 1957 in Biel, Switzerland; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Description: Exhibition in Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation in Firminy, France. Built in 1965–67, the building had been half-empty and boarded up since 1983. Forty […]
Christian Philipp Müller, Forgotten Future, 1992
Artist: Christian Philipp Müller (born 1957 in Biel, Switzerland; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Preliminary Room: – Untitled, 1990, two enamel plaques (Antwerp / Villes radieuses); 41 x 27 inches / 85 x 39 inches; courtesy of Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp – Wall text – Display case with documents about Poème éléctronique by […]
Jorge Pardo, Me and My Mum, 1990
Artist: Jorge Pardo (born 1963 Havana, Cuba; lives and works in Mérida, Mexico and New York, USA). Description: A refabrication of Le Corbusier’s classic chair and sofa using industrial copper tubing rather than the polished steel tubes that form the core of the original. The title alludes to the fact that although such chairs have […]
Jorge Pardo, Le Corbusier Chair and Sofa, 1990
Artist: Jorge Pardo (born 1963 Havana, Cuba; lives and works in Mérida, Mexico and New York, USA). Description: Refabricated version of Le Corbusier’s classic chair and sofa using industrial copper tubing rather than the polished steel cubes that form the core of the original.
