Luftwerk: Parallel Perspectives at the Elmhurst Art Museum

May 11, 2019

Luftwerk: Parallel Perspectives
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
May 11th – August 25th, 2019
Luftwerk: Parallel Perspectives is a site-specific exhibition that uses color and light interventions to activate and interpret the McCormick House, designed by Mies van der Rohe. The installation by Luftwerk—the Chicago-based artistic collaborative of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero—heightens the senses and alters perception while celebrating the use of geometry in the Mid-century prefab prototype. Color is central to the visual transformation of the home’s architectural nuances, and largely inspired by an idea of the original developers Robert Hall McCormick and Herbert S. Greenwald, who offered to tint windows of their proposed prefab housing “almost any shade of the rainbow.” Parallel Perspectives is part of Bauhaus100, the global anniversary celebrations of the legendary German art school. It continues the artists’ year-long exploration of architecture by Mies, which began with the Barcelona Pavilion and will end with the Farnsworth House. More on the exhibition here.

Luftwerk’s Occurence of Light permanently on view in Calgary

May 10, 2019

Luftwerk’s Occurrence of Light is a public art piece in Calgary, Alberta, permanently on view outside of the new Manulife office building designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Inspired by the aurora borealis, the phenomena of colored lights shimmering across the night sky, Occurrence of Light mimics the cosmic event. At once a static sculpture and a dynamic composition, the piece is enlivened with compressed rhythms of fluid imagery. The video imagery — computer manipulated light refractions in water — is connected to live streaming data of the region’s geomagnetic activity, which influences the speed and color palette of the video. The data is provided by the Aurorawatch service and the CARISMA magnetometer network, both of which are operated by the Space Physics group at the University of Alberta. CARISMA is part of the “Geospace Observatory” program funded by the Canadian Space Agency.

 

Tanya Aguiñiga’s Quipu Fronterizo/Border Quipu recently acquired by LACMA

LACMA has acquired Tanya Aguiñiga’s Quipu Fronterizo/Border Quipu from her project with AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides). Quipu Fonterizo was made collaboratively with US/Mexico border commuters on the Mexican side of the San Ysidro Border Crossing by giving out two stands of thread and asking to anonymously tie them into a knot. “The strands represent the US and Mexico’s relationship to one another, our self at either side of the border, and our own mental state at the point of crossing.” – Tanya Aguiñiga. Purchased with funds provided by AHAN: Studio Forum, 2018 Art Here and Now purchase.

Ross Hansen’s Chair recently acquired by SFMOMA

May 9, 2019

Los Angeles-based designer, Ross Hansen, investigates the concepts of the 18th century English artist, William Gilpin’s notion of the picturesque through his own interpretation of these ideals in Chair. Hansen borrows from methods of industrial production; each item is hand-produced through custom-crafted molds and craft methodologies.

 

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