Juan Araújo, Casa Luis Barragán, 2010
Artist: Juan Araújo (born 1971 in Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal). Materials: Oil on wood. Description: “The images by Juan Araújo are a deep reflection on the painting-architecture relationship that is often expressed through the binomials of fiction/reality; the two-dimensional /three-dimensional and non-materiality /materialization. Yet his game of associations does not end […]
Juan Araújo, Residencia Milan 1, 2010
Artist: Juan Araújo (born 1971 in Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal). Materials: Oil on wood. Description: “Residencia Milan 1 is a painting of a house surrounded by lush forest. The image depicted is both photorealistic and creates the illusion of an unfolded piece of paper, with creases and discolorations. In referring to […]
Julião Sarmento, “Silver Lake” series, 2010-11
Artist: Julião Sarmento (born 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal; lives and works in Estoril, Portugal). Materials: Polyvinyl acetate, pigments, acrylic, acrylic gesso, ink, graphite, and silkscreen print on unprimed cotton canvas. Description: “In a new series of collages passages of Wittengstein’s notoriously fragmented philosophical notes on color appear taped to the surfaces flanked by silkscreened images […]
Toby Paterson, Apollo Reprise (Imaginary Landscape with Pavilion and Pool), 2012
Artist: Toby Paterson (born 1974 in Glasgow, Scotland; lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland). Materials: Acrylic paint applied directly on wall. Description: “The ruin inhabits very different social, economic and historical contexts: the housing schemes for working class of post-industrial England embodied in Victor Pasmore’s design of the Peterlee urban complex and its now dilapidated Apollo […]
Jill Magid, Homage to the Square, 1963, After Josef Albers, 2014
Artist: Jill Magid (born 1973 in Bridgeport, CT, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Oil on hardboard. Description: “In Homage Magid considers the eschewal of intellectual property rights in favor of sharing. This concept is explored through the mutually respectful relationship between the Bauhaus modernist Josef Albers and Mexico’s pre-eminent modernist […]
IRWIN, Icons – Retroprincip, 1983 – ongoing
Artist: IRWIN [Dušan Mandič, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, and Borut Vogelnik] (collective 1983 founded in Ljubljana, Slovenia; works in Ljubljana). Description: IRWIN select and remix ideologically specific imagery (rather than the de-hierarchized remixing of forms found in postmodernist architecture, where motifs and styles are divorced from their social and cultural meanings). All imagery can […]
