Mike Nelson, Barker Ranch, 1996
Artist: Mike Nelson (born 1967, Loughborough, UK). Material: Sculptural installation with wood and lights. Description: “Like the tip of an iceberg, the shape of the spiral has emerged at intermittent moments throughout Nelson’s career. It is central to the structure of works such as Barker Ranch (1996), which brought together Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the […]
David Claerbout, Olympia, 2016
Artist: David Claerbout (born 1969 in Kortrijk, Belgium; lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium and Berlin, Germany). Full title: Olympia (The real time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium over the course of a thousand years) Materials: Two channel real-time projection, colour, silent, HD animation, 1000 years (begun 2016) Description: “Olympia is a […]
Leonor Antunes, discrepancies with C. P., 2019
Artist: Leonor Antunes (born 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal; lives and works in Lisbon and Berlin, Germany). Material: Sculptural installation comprising six sculptures on a sisal carpet. Description: Installation at Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich. It is based on Antunes’s “intense engagement with Cuban furniture designer and interior designer Clara Porset (1895–1981), which began in 2007 […] […]
Xavier Delory, Pilgrimage Along Modernity, 2014–19
Artist: Xavier Delory (b. 1973, Liege, Belgium; lives and works in Brussels) Description: A series of digital photomontages showing buildings by Le Corbusier in a state of dereliction and ruin. The images above are Pilgrimage (2014), an image of the Villa Savoye, and The End of Modernity (2015), showing the chapel at Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp. Other […]
Kader Attia, Untitled (Ghardaïa), 2009
Artist: Kader Attia (born 1970 in Dugny, France; lives and works in Paris and Berlin). Materials: Cooked couscous on wooden table and digital prints on paper. Description: “Untitled (Ghardaïa) 2009 is a scale model of the ancient city Ghardaïa in the M’zab Valley in Algeria. The model is made from cooked couscous, a staple food […]
Michel Aubry, Rietveld Chairs, 1998
Top image: Mise en musique de la chaise rouge et bleue de Gerrit Rietveld 1918-1998, 1998 Bottom image: Mise en musique de la chaise droite de Gerrit Rietveld 1924-2000, 2000 Artist: Michel Aubry (born 1959 in Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët, France; lives and works in Paris, France). Materials: Wooden slats and reeds. Description: Versions of Rietveld […]
Concretos, 2022
[Installation shots and Jane and Louise Wilson’s Monument (Apollo Pavilion, Peterlee), 2003] Curator: Gilberto González and Pablo León de la Barra Description: Exhibition at TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, 2022–23. Estas muestras […] parten de la idea de que los proyectos ideológicos de la modernidad se han convertido en la infraestructura de nuestro presente, […]
Ângela Ferreira, Talk Tower for Forough Farrokhzad, 2020
Artist: Ângela Ferreira (born 1958, Maputo, Mozambique; lives and works in Lisbon). Description: Sculpture in PVC, iron, aluminium, electric installation, amplifier and megaphones; 285 x 175 x 105 cm 12 drawings: Graphite on fabriano paper; print; 21 x 29 cm Sound: Forough Farrokhzad – Tavalodi Digar; 4:17; loop “Talk Tower for Forough Farrokhzad (2020) was designed […]
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Total Transformation, 2019
Artist Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen (b. 1977, Aeroe, Denmark; lives and works in Copenhagen). Materials Exhibition at Galleri Møller Witt, Copenhagen. Paintings, oil on canvas, various sizes. Above: installation view; Deserting Desert Land (2019), 146 x 231 cm; Total Work of Art (2019), 140 x 184 cm; Mood Machine (2018). Description An exhibition of paintings depicting modernist […]
Ian Kiaer, Melnikov Project, 2011
Artist: Ian Kiaer (born 1971, London, lives and works in London) Description: Installation of paintings and sculpture. One sculpture is a model of Melnikov’s Cylindrical House Studio (1929), an architectural design for a house in which Melnikov lived and worked. “Kiaer’s exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, his first one-person presentation in the United States, […]
