Ian Kiaer, Endless House Project, Horta/Van Eetvelde, 2009
Artist: Ian Kiaer (born 1971, London, lives and works in London) Description: Paintings (oil on canvas) and sculpture (acrylic on paper mounted on taffeta, oil on canvas, cardboard, plastic). Endless House Project, Horta/Van Eetvelde was originally installed in a Brussels town house designed by Victor Horta. “The home featured a central open vault which […]
Candida Höfer, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo XI, 2005
Artist: Candida Hofer (born 1944 in Eberswalde, Germany; lives and works in Cologne, Germany). Description: C-print of the interior of Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, headquarters of the Bienal de São Paulo Foundation since 1957. From a series of photographs of the pavilion, designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
Ian Kiaer, Endless House, 2013
Artist: Ian Kiaer (born 1971, London, lives and works in London) Description: A solo exhibition at International Centre for Art and Landscape at Vassivière Island (CIAP) in 2013 that presented Kiaer’s ongoing research project ‘Endless House’, a reference to the Austrian architect and designer Frederick Kiesler. “Kiesler’s proposal for a single-unit family dwelling remained unbuilt […]
Jonathan Monk, Me up a tree similar to one painted by Piet Mondrian in 1945, 2000
Artist: Jonathan Monk (born 1969, Leicester, UK, lives and works in Berlin) Materials: C-Print, 16 x 20” / 41 x 51 cm Description:
Jonathan Monk, Eleven White Boetti Spines, 2020
Artist: Jonathan Monk (born 1969, Leicester, UK, lives and works in Berlin) Materials: Wood, gesso, white paint. Description: “Jonathan Monk has a large library and it is full of monographs and artist’s books from the 20th century. Following the Book Stacks from 2018, Jonathan Monk has picked eleven books about and by Alighiero e Boetti […]
Ângela Ferreira, Monument to D. Flavin (an ideological utopia to contemplate), 2008
Artist: Ângela Ferreira (born 1958, Maputo, Mozambique; lives and works in Lisbon). Description: Outdoor sculpture constructed from aluminium and fluorescent lights, conceived for the Castelo de Guimarães, Portugal. Monument to D.Flavin (an ideological utopia to contemplate) brings together two works of art from the twentieth century: Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International (1919–1920) and Dan […]
Nairy Baghramian and Janette Laverrière, La lampe dans l’horloge, 2008
Artist: Nairy Baghramian (born 1971 in Isfahan, Iran; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Description: La lampe dans l’horloge shows works by the French designer Janette Laverrière (1909-2011) and exhibition architecture by Baghramian, working in cooperation with Laverrière. The exhibition architecture comprises shelves with a little library arranged inside. Outside, different mirror objects of Laverrière […]
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Flooded Modernity, 2018
Artist: Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen (b. 1977, Aeroe, Denmark; lives and works in Copenhagen). Description: A faithful 1:1 mock-up of a corner of Le Corbusier’s 1927 Villa Savoye, submerged in Vejle Fjord. Conceived for the Floating Art Festival, Vejle Art Museum, Denmark. “Havsteen-Mikkelsen’s appropriation of the Villa Savoye alights with the sunken dreams of Le Corbusier and […]
Simon Starling, The Black Stack, 2001
Artist: Simon Starling (born 1967 in Epsom, England; lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark). Description: A stack of 32 Eames chairs on top of each other. Included in Carolyn Christov Bakargiev’s exhibition “I Moderni” (2003).
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tropicale modernité, 1999
Artist: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (born 1965 in Strasbourg, France; lives and works in Paris, France and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Description: An installation in Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, attempting to ‘tropicalise’ this paradigm of early twentieth-century European modernism by inserting an aquarium, a soundtrack, a rug, a neon, a video, white towels and what […]
