Mauricio Rocha, Intervention in the Torre de los Vientos, 1998
Top: photo-collage of installation Bottom: maquette Artist: Maurcio Rocha (born 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City). Description: An architectural intervention in La Torre de los Vientos, a 1968 sculpture by Gonzalo Fonseca, at the invitation of Mexican artist Pedro Reyes. Rocha built a ladder similar to the framework used when […]
Heidrun Holzfeind and Christophe Draeger, Arquitectura Contemporanea, 2005
Artist: Heidrun Holzfeind (born 1972 in Lienz, Austria; lives and works in Vienna, Austria and New York City, USA) and Christophe Draeger (born 1965 in Zurich, Switzerland; lives and works in Vienna and New York City). Materials: Synchronized slide installation with two projectors and audio; 84 slides; 18 min. Description: “Starting point of the project […]
Terence Gower, The Polytechnic, 2005
Artist: Terence Gower (born 1965 in British Columbia, Canada; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Digital video, 8 min 20 sec. Description: “This video is composed of photographs of Mexico’s Instituto politecnico nacional taken upon its completion in 1964. The video animates the still images using zooms and pans and takes the viewer […]
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 […]
Terence Gower, Ciudad Moderna, 2004
Artist: Terence Gower (born 1965 in British Columbia, Canada; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Digital video; 6 min 20 sec. Description: “The video Ciudad Moderna is a composite of clips taken from the popular Mexican film Despedida de Casada, released in 1966. The source film is treated as a document of […]
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 […]
Terence Gower, Manifiesto, 2015
Artist: Terence Gower (born 1965 in British Columbia, Canada; lives and works in New York City, USA). Description: “Manifiesto juxtaposes music and architecture, two forms of expression that employ rhythm, harmony, proportion, and dynamics. Mathias Goeritz, in his 1952 Manifiesto de la arquitectura emocional and in his manifesto’s built form, El Eco, added emotion to this list […]
“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 […]
Pedro Reyes, La Torre de los Vientos, 1997-2004
Artist: Pedro Reyes (born 1972 in Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City). Description: Reyes squatted inside La Torre de los Vientos, a 1968 sculpture by Gonzalo Fonseca, and used it as a studio and exhibition space for five years. Over 30 projects, events, and exhibitions took place while he was there. “La Torre […]
