Luisa Lambri, “Caso do Baile” series, 2003
Artist: Luisa Lambri (born 1969 in Como, Italy; lives and works in Los Angeles, USA). Materials: Series of laserchrome prints. Description: A photography series around Niemeyer’s Casa das Canoas (Niemeyer’s own house built in 1953 in Rio de Janeiro) and Casa do Baile, a dance hall in Belo Horizonte and built by the architect in […]
Mark Lewis, Staircase at the Edificio Copan, 2014
Artist: Mark Lewis (born 1958 in Vancouver, Canada; lives and works in London, England). Materials: Digital video; Approx. 5 minutes 30 seconds Description: “The films that comprise Invention (and there are 14 of them) cover a lot of ground. Lewis’ compilation feature covers three cities on three different continents: Toronto, Paris, and São Paolo. Invention […]
“Love and Hate to Lygia Clark,” 2013
Curator: Magda Kardasz (born 1967 in Poland; lives and works in Warsaw, Poland). Description: Group exhibition at the Zachęta—National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland, on view from December 13, 2013 to February 23, 2014. “The exhibition presents young Brazilian artists who in their work refer to the classics of contemporary art from their country, primarily […]
Sean Snyder, “Brasilia” series, 2000
Artist: Sean Snyder (born 1972 in Virginia Beach, USA; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Description: A series of color photographs depicting the city of Brasilía as a sort of contemporary ruin. “Determining the limits of what is feasible, the city Brasilia [sic] was built in the middle of the jungle. Sean Snyder’s color photographs, […]
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Brasilia Hall, 1998-99/2000
Artist: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (born 1965 in Strasbourg, France; lives and works in Paris, France and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Materials: Neon sign, carpet, video; color, silent. Description: A reference to Oscar Niemeyer, Brasilia Hall was first shown in Gonzalez-Foerster’s ARC show in Paris in 1999. The work is interested in how experimental forms of modernism took […]
Matthias Müller, Vacancy, 1998
Artist: Matthias Müller (born 1961 in Bielefeld, Germany; lives and works in Bielefeld and Cologne, Germany). Materials: Film, shown as video, projection, or monitor, color and, sound; 13 min 52 sec. Description: “Brasília, the ‘city of hope,’ ‘the ultimate utopia of the 20th century’ (Umberto Eco), is being conserved as a cultural heritage today. It is […]
