Jeff Wall, Morning Cleaning, Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona, 1999
Artist: Jeff Wall (born 1947 in Vancouver, Canada; lives and works in Vancouver). Materials: Transparency on lightbox; 1870 x 3510 x 260 mm. Description: A picture of a window cleaner attending to Mies’s Barcelona Pavilion (1929). “Morning Cleaning, Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona is a color photograph displayed as a transparency in a lightbox that measures […]
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Architecture, 1997
Artist: Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1947 in Tokyo, Japan; lives and works in New York, USA and Tokyo). Documentation: Guggenheim, New York (1997); Fagus Shoe Last Factory, Gropius (1998) Description: A photographic series of blurry shots of famous modernist architecture. “‘Sugimoto traveled around the world to photograph landmarks of modern architecture—not to document them, but to bring […]
Günther Förg, “Barcelona Pavillon” Photographs, 1988-89
Artist: Günther Förg (born 1952 in Füssen, Germany; died 2013 in Freiburg, Germany). Description: A series of black-and-white and color photographs of the German Pavilion, designed by Mies van der Rohe, originally from the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. “These monumental photographs obscure the austerity of Mies van der Rohe’s architectural masterpiece by engaging corners, […]
Haim Steinbach, Untitled (Daybed, coffin), 1989
Artist: Haim Steinbach (born 1944 in Rehovot, Israel; lives and works in New York, USA). Materials: Walnut veneered wood box, steel, leather Mies van der Rohe daybed, wood coffin, paper mache skeleton; 175 x 257 x 208 cm. Description: A massive, two-sided box that contains a folk art coffin with a paper mache skeleton on […]
