Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Tropical House), 2006
Artist: Rirkrit Tiravanija (born 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; lives and works in Chiang Man, Thailand, Berlin, Germany, and New York City, USA). Materials: Wood and metal; 2.4 x 2.7 x 2.4 m. Description: “Tiravanija considers his role as an artist is as a developer of a dialogue, not necessarily as the creator of an […]
Barbara Visser, Transformation I & II, 2006
Artist: Barbara Visser (born 1967 in Haarlem, the Netherlands; lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and New York City, USA). Materials: Text and mute computer animation; 5 min and 39 sec. Description: “This work revolves around the critique that the current way of building does not accomodate the multiple social, professional, and psychological changes […]
Enoc Perez, Seagram Building [after a photograph by Ezra Stoller], 2006
![<b>Enoc Perez, <i>Seagram Building [after a photograph by Ezra Stoller]</i>, 2006</b>](https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/2547/files/2017/06/EnocPerez_SeagramBuildingNewYork-700x868-700x220.jpg "<b>Enoc Perez, <i>Seagram Building [after a photograph by Ezra Stoller]</i>, 2006</b>")
Artist: Enoc Perez (born 1967 in San Juan, Puerto Rico; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Oil on canvas; 267 x 218 cm. Description: A painting of the Seagram Building. “Perez is best known for his paintings of modernist buildings that nostalgically capture the utopian ambitions and optimism that inspired their construction. […]
David Tomas, Red Chair, 2006
Artist: David Tomas (born 1950 in Canada; lives and works in Montreal, Canada). Description: Sculpture modeled after the chair from Paul Engelmann’s Haus Wittgenstein.
Ann Lislegaard, Crystal World (after J. G. Ballard), 2006
Artist: Ann Lislegaard (born 1962 in Norway; lives and works in New York City, USA and Copenhagen, Denmark). Materials: 3D animation; no sound. Description: “Crystal World (after J. G. Ballard) is a 3-D animation about a journey to an abandoned hotel in a wilderness that is slowly crystallizing. As the animation moves through architectural spaces that […]
Corey McCorkle, Tower of Shadows, 2006
Artist: Corey McCorkle (born 1969 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Film; 3 min. Description: “Tower of Shadows, as a final meditation on the incontestable utopian poster-city of [the twentieth century], in spite of and perhaps because of the abject state of its incompletion, serves as a […]
David Diao, “Sitting the Glass House” series, 2003-05
Artist: David Diao (born 1943 in Chengdu, China; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Acrylic and oil on canvas; variable dimensions. Sitting in the Glass House 2 shown above. Description: Two paintings that shows the artists in Philip Johnson’s Glass House. “In Sitting in the Glass House, he made himself at home […]
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 […]
Angelina Gualdoni, Praça dos Tres Poderes, Noon, 2005
Artist: Angelina Gualdoni (born 1975 in San Francisco, USA; lives and works in Brooklyn, USA). Materials: Acrylic and oil on canvas; 122 x 183 cm. Description: “Praça dos Tres Poderes is a large, imposing square at the heart of Brasilia, the political capital of Brazil. Constructed between 1956 and 1960 to a design by visionary […]
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 […]
