Last week in Chicago for CAA, where I spoke on Pond Farm Workshops as part of a panel on the 20th-century workshop with @corachalaby and Anna Flinchbaugh. Between sessions, we made time for Frank Lloyd Wright!
1. @millie_horton_insch and I in the living room of the Robie House, Hyde Park, 1909
2. Unity Temple exterior, Oak Park, 1908
3. Repeating squares inside Unity Temple
4. The study in Wright’s Home and Studio, Oak Park, 1909
5. Arts & Architecture, December 1949 feature on Pond Farm Workshops @pondfarmpottery@caavisual
Loving geometry
1. ‘Geometrica Amorosa' Lygia Clark: Studio Origins // Alison Wilding: Testing the Objects of Affection @alisonjacquesgallery
2. The Olivetti showroom / Carlo Scarpa
3. Courtyard of Attachments @plantertrevor
4. Angolo fiorito @dianesilverstudio
5. The space in which to place me @jeffrune
6. 'Dancing tubes' Gustav Metzger @hauserwirth
7. ‘Maquettes and Bichos', Clark
8. June Wayne and Emerson Woeffler at Tamarind Letter to Harold and May Rosenberg from Wayne, 1969
Curated by Zoë Ryan, ‘In a Cloud’ presents a compelling reappraisal of the intersections of art and design at mid-century in Mexico. Drawn from Clara Porset’s maxim that ‘there is design in everything: in a cloud, in a wall, in a chair’, the exhibition title bridges the diverse range of these artists’ practices through their comparably inclusive and decidedly modernist approach towards their source material. Ryan writes that the geometries of ancient sculptures and textiles and the appearance of archaeological sites offered ‘a universal visual language’ for the artists’ pursuit of a modern form of expression. #artinstituteofchicago #claraporset #ruthasawa #butaque #barragan
Heidi Bucher’s labor intensive process is documented in films of the artist painstakingly coating entire rooms with latex and gauze. The subsequent struggle to remove the latex continues this physical exertion and suggests that her undertaking is principally cathartic. Yanking, pulling and tugging Bucher battles with the material, producing these ‘skinnings’ which incite intimate reflections on the body within interior space.
Heidi Bucher, ‘Fenster mit Läden und Schindeln’ (‘Window with shutters and shingles’), 1988, latex and gauze #heidibucher #parasolunit
