Yorgos Sapountzis, ‘Fast Cast’ and ‘Die Welt in Teilen (Office)’ (2011)
Yorgos Sapountzis takes the recognized dimensions of paving stones found in the city of Berlin and uses them to create a measuring device (a grid of of aluminium poles and fabric) to measure all floor areas of the gallery. These grids (colour coded for each room) are then collapsed and hung from the walls.
The Red Salon in the Van Loon Museum, Amsterdam, is cast in a its own colour negative (green) by using a still video projection; all colour is thereby extracted from a section of the room, turning the space into a black and white version of itself.
‘On the Museum’s Ruin (Morris – Hunt – Corbusier – Piano)’ (2010) by Liz Glynn
Created at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, designed by le Corbusier, during the renovation of the Fogg Museum of Art, initially designed by William Morris Hunt, with renovation by Renzo Piano. The chairs were cast based on Le Corbusier’s iconic LC2 design using rubble from the museum renovation.
This was a practice where the mother, often disguised or hiding, often under a spread, holds her baby tightly for the photographer to ensure a sharply focused image.
