Luis Úrculo, Covers/Versions, 2011
Artist: Luis Úrculo (born 1978 in Madrid, Spain; lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico). Materials: HD video; color; 6 min 41 sec. Description: “Covers is an investigation about architecture as a consumption object or souvenir and its relation with the domestic non-specialized language of everyday things. The work is a reconstruction and review of […]
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 […]
Josiah McElheny, Bruno Taut’s Monument to Socialist Spirituality (After Mies van der Rohe), 2009
Artist: Josiah McElheny (born 1966 in Boston, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Hand-blown and molded glass modules, wood, and hardware. Description: “The exhibition’s centerpiece is an eight-foot tall sculpture based on Mies van der Rohe’s earliest model of a glass-clad skyscraper. Mies’s model, as depicted in a series of photographs […]
Corine Vermeulen, Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies, 2009
Artist: Corine Vermeulen (born 1970 in Gouda, Netherlands; lives and works in Detroit, USA). Materials: Color photographs Description: “Thanks for the view, Mr. Mies (Detroit, 2009) is a series of portraits of residents in their living rooms in the Lafayette Park neighborhood of downtown Detroit, home to the largest collection of Mies van der Rohe-designed […]
“Learning Modern,” 2009
Description: Group exhibition on view at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago from September 26, 2009-January 9, 2010. Featuring: BlackBox Studio research arm of SOM, Thom Faulders Berkeley, Angela Ferreira Lisbon, Portugal, Andrea Fraser, Charles Harrison, Walter Hood, Ken Isaacs, Narelle Jubelin, Carole Frances Lung, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Mark-Mark-and Matt Collaboration, Helen-Maria Nugent and Jan […]
Ângela Ferreira, Crown Hall/Dragon House, 2009
Artist: Ângela Ferreira (born 1958, Maputo, Mozambique; lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal). Materials: Steel, wood, acrylic. Description: “Ângela Ferreira’s Crown Hall/Dragon House, 2009 literally turns Mies on his head by conflating elements of those two buildings into an upside down structure that connects floor to ceiling. It is an interesting object because it appears […]
“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 […]
David Claerbout, The Bordeaux Piece, 2004
Artist: David Claerbout (born 1969 in Kortrijk, Belgium; lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium and Berlin, Germany). Materials: Single-channel video projection, color, dual mono over headphones and speakers; 13 hrs 43 min. Description: 13-hour video of Rem Koolhaas’s Maison à Bordeaux (1996), itself a comment on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s courtyard houses and glass […]
Ai Weiwei, With Milk, Find Something Everybody Can Use, 2010
Artist: Ai Weiwei (born 1957 in Beijing, China; lives and works in Beijing, China). Materials: Milk and coffee. Description: “I approach Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavillion as a ready-made, the activities it experienced and the way it’s been seen. The building is not static, in fact, my intervention explores the metabolism of a living […]
Sarah Morris, Points on a Line, 2010
Artist: Sarah Morris (born 1967 in Sevenoaks, England; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: HD digital color video; 35 minutes 48 seconds. Description: “The Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois and the Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut. Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe. Curator and architect. Architect and architect. “Points on a Line” directed […]
