Simon Starling, “Bowls, Plates, and El Eco,” 2015
Artist: Simon Starling (born 1967 in Epsom, England; lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark). Description: An exhibition held at the Casa Estudio Luis Barragán and the Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, DF in 2015. “A new photographic project specifically developed by Starling, for the context of the Luis Barragán House and Studio, consisting of […]
Juan Araújo, Casa Luis Barragán, 2010
Artist: Juan Araújo (born 1971 in Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal). Materials: Oil on wood. Description: “The images by Juan Araújo are a deep reflection on the painting-architecture relationship that is often expressed through the binomials of fiction/reality; the two-dimensional /three-dimensional and non-materiality /materialization. Yet his game of associations does not end […]
Jill Magid, The Barragán Archives, 2012-
Artist: Jill Magid (born 1973 in Bridgeport, CT, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Multimedia project. Description: “Magid considers both Barragán’s professional and personal archives, and how the intersections of his official and private selves reveal divergent and aligned interests, as well as those of the institutions that have become the […]
Jill Magid, Homage to the Square, 1963, After Josef Albers, 2014
Artist: Jill Magid (born 1973 in Bridgeport, CT, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Oil on hardboard. Description: “In Homage Magid considers the eschewal of intellectual property rights in favor of sharing. This concept is explored through the mutually respectful relationship between the Bauhaus modernist Josef Albers and Mexico’s pre-eminent modernist […]
Jill Magid, Butaca Chair, After Josef Albers, After Luis Barragán, After Clara Porset, 2014
Artist: Jill Magid (born 1973 in Bridgeport, CT, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Wood, leather. Description: “Aided by the precise notes Albers left on the back of his paintings which tell of the colours, brands, and condition of each of the paints he used, but thwarted by many of the […]
“The Air is Blue,” 2002
Curator: Hans-Ulrich Obrist (born 1968 in Zurich, Switzerland; lives and works in London, England). Description: An exhibition curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist at the Casa Museo Luis Barragán in Mexico City, which ran for three years and included forty-seven artists and contributors by the exhibition’s end. “When I visited Mexico City for the first time, Pedro Reyes […]
