Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis, Paraíso Ocupado, 2010
Artist: Wouter Osterholt (born 1979 in Leiden, the Netherlands) and Elke Uitenuis (born 1977 in Sneek, the Netherlands). Description: “(Portuguese for ‘Occupied Paradise’) is a reconstruction of a failed modernist plan for an urban center located in the West zone of Rio de Janeiro. This plan, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, was officially approved in 1970 […]
Runo Lagomarsino, ContreTiempos, 2010
Artist: Runo Lagomarsino (born 1977 in LundRun, Sweden; lives and works São Paulo, Brazil). Materials: Projection of 27 color 35 mm slides; 5 minutes 24 seconds. Description: “ContraTiempos documents the findings of Runo Lagomarsino’s wanderings under the Marquise, a concrete canopy that connects the different buildings in Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx’s 1954 Ibirapuera Park […]
