Armando Andrade Tudela, Transa, 2005
Artist: Armando Andrade Tudela (born 1975 in Lima, Peru; lives and works in St. Etienne, France and Berlin, Germany). Materials: Paper and vinyl; dimensions variable. Description: A Constructivist handling of a Caetano Veloso album. Tudela is interested in a Peruvian modernism as a space under permanent construction. “Transa (2005) is a sculpture made from copies […]
Leonor Antunes, a spine wall suppressed all draughts, 2008
Artist: Leonor Antunes (born 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Material: Leather and Fiberglass Description: “a spine wall suppressed all draughts belongs to a series of works Leonor Antunes conceived following her research on E-1027, a seaside villa in Southern France designed by Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici and built between 1926 […]
Isa Melsheimer, Dachgarten/Raum, 2010
Artist: Isa Melsheimer (born 1968 in Neuss, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Concrete, metal, and cypress Description: “Using very different mediums such as concrete, embroidery, and gouache, the artist strives to bring to the forefront a rather surprising result, for the apartment made by Le Corbusier is actually close to a surrealistic […]
Laure Tixier, Plaid House # VI, 2008
Artist: Laure Tixier (born 1972 in Chamalières, France; lives and works in Paris, France). Materials: Felt Description: “Created for Mudam Luxembourg in collaboration with the Musée du Feutre in Mouzon (France), the nine structures that make up the series Plaid Houses are based on a series of drawings conceived by the artist as a range […]
Kostis Velonis, Reconstruction of the Model of Tatlin’s Monument to the III International as an Instrument of Research for Domesticity, 2009
Artist: Kostis Velonis (born 1968; lives and works in Athens, Greece). Materials: Wood, acrylic, veneer, plywood, and paint spray Description: “[Kostis Velonis’s] sculptures and works on paper are an interestingly uneasy combination of two strains of recent art: the ‘Unmonumental’ school of haphazard, jerry-built, intuitively free-associative assemblage on the one hand; and a more concept-driven […]
Josiah McElheny, Bruno Taut’s Monument to Socialist Spirituality (After Mies van der Rohe), 2009
Artist: Josiah McElheny (born 1966 in Boston, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Hand-blown and molded glass modules, wood, and hardware. Description: “The exhibition’s centerpiece is an eight-foot tall sculpture based on Mies van der Rohe’s earliest model of a glass-clad skyscraper. Mies’s model, as depicted in a series of photographs […]
Ângela Ferreira, Crown Hall/Dragon House, 2009
Artist: Ângela Ferreira (born 1958, Maputo, Mozambique; lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal). Materials: Steel, wood, acrylic. Description: “Ângela Ferreira’s Crown Hall/Dragon House, 2009 literally turns Mies on his head by conflating elements of those two buildings into an upside down structure that connects floor to ceiling. It is an interesting object because it appears […]
Felipe Arturo, Casa Domino, 2010
Artist: Felipe Arturo (born 1979 in Bogotá, Colombia; lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal and Bogotá, Colombia). Materials: Reinforced concrete. Description:
Pierre Bismuth, Complexe des villas / Bâtiment Le Corbusier (maquette), 2010
Artist: Pierre Bismuth (born 1963 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; lives and works in Brussels, Belgium). Materials: Wood, cardboard wood, and paint; Ink on polyacetate. Description: “Pierre Bismuth performs the impossible synthesis between the two faces of Le Corbusier: from the villas blanches to housing projects, with a sense of humor and economy of means that are […]
John Angelo Benson, “Corrupted Classics Collection” Series, 2003-04
Artist: John Angelo Benson (born 1971 in London, England; lives and works in London). Description: A series of reformatted staples of modernist furniture, but with their practical components replaced by uncomfortable and dangerous elements. Le Corbusier’s Grand Confort chair, for example, is made of straw. “On the border between art and design, Benson upholds the […]
