Marine Hugonnier, “Un coup des dès jamais n’abolira le hasard” series, 2007
Artist: Marine Hugonnier (born 1969 in Paris, France; lives and works in London, England). Materials: 11 collages; 32,4 x 50 cm. Description: A series using different editions of Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés… (1897). Hugonnier alters the text, adding images from the internet into the intervals of the poem. Destructive, anarchic gestures, but also anachronistic: […]
Werner Feiersinger, “Untitled” series, 2007, 2013″
Artist: Werner Feiersinger (born 1966 in Brixlegg, Austria; lives and works in Vienna, Austria). Materials: C-prints; variable dimensions. Description: Series of photographs of projects by Le Corbusier. “The precision with which Feiersinger executes his works is matched by the scope of his… engagement with a given architectural or artistic canon. These are taken mostly from […]
Sadie Murdoch, “Mirrored Photomontage” series, 2007
Artist: Sadie Murdoch (born 1965 in the United Kingdom; lives and works in London, England). Materials: Eight archival pigment prints on fine art paper mounted on conservation board; variable dimensions. Description: “Mirrored Photomontage, Part One and Mirrored Photomontage, Part Two were photographed with a Single Lens Reflex camera and color negative film. Using analogue photography, […]
Dorit Margreiter, Original Condition, 2006
Artist: Dorit Margreiter (born 1967 in Vienna, Austria; lives and works in Vienna, Austria). Materials: Newspaper clippings on cardboard in 12 parts. Description: “Original Condition, of which Margreiter made three series in 2006, comprises small-format real estate advertisements for family homes and mansions designed by renowned male architects, among them Victor Gruen, Frank Lloyd Wright, […]
Christine Erhard, Penguin Pool, 2006
Artist: Christine Erhard (born 1969 in Crailsheim, Germany; lives and works in Germany). Description: A photograph of Berthold Lubetkin’s Penguin Pool in London. “Christine’s primary motive in making her work is to reproduce a new reality, something that looks real but cannot actually exist, except when viewed through the camera. Trying to move away from […]
Thomas Florschuetz, Untitled (Ronchamp), 2005
Artist: Thomas Florschuetz (born 1957 in Zwickau, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: C-print. Description: Collaged series of photographs of various angles of Le Corbusier’s Notre-Dame-du-Haut.”The Bauhaus in Dessau, the Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut by Le Corbusier in Rochamp and one of the classic buildings in the London district of Belgravia—these are the places […]
Kasper Akhøj, Welcome (to the Teknival), 2008-
Artist: Kasper Akhøj (born 1976 in Copenhagen, Denmark; lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark). Material: Silver gelatin prints. Description: “In Welcome (to the Teknival), Kasper Akhøj examines the process of restoration which is currently taking place at Eileen Gray’s Villa E.1027 in Roquebrune, Cap Martin. Taking as a starting point the series of images that Eileen Gray […]
José Dávila, Lo universal bajo la forma del concreto, 2011
Artist: José Dávila (born 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico; lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico). Materials: Archival pigment prints. Description: “Dávila’s practice has explored spatial occupation and the transitory nature of physical structures. Drawing on his formal training as an architect, Dávila creates sculptural installations and photographic works that simultaneously emulate, critique, and pay homage to […]
Michael Wesely and Lina Kim, Archive Utopia: Project Brasilia, 2012
Artist: Michael Wesely (born 1963 in Munich, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Lina Kim (born 1965 in São Paulo, Brazil; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Color and black and white photographs and archival images. Description: “Brasília, the capital of Brazil, formally dedicated in 1960, seems more like an architectural myth, a […]
Dionisio González, Le Corbusier: The Last Project, 2013
Artist: Dionisio González (born 1965 in Gijon, Spain; lives and works in Seville, Spain). Materials: Digital photographs. Description: “‘This exhibition intends to show a work of restitution of omitted vestiges’, explains González. It is therefore an archival task ‘based on processing the object so that it does not become corrupted by oblivion and may be […]
