With the Flowers For Lisa project and the Cliché
Verre work I have ventured into the painting territory and combining it with photographic information.
Not exact matches
THE JEWISH MUSEUM unearthed the life and
work of the architect - designer Pierre Chareau (1883 - 1950), previously known mostly for a single modernist masterpiece, the Maison de
Verre in Paris, in a first American retrospective framed in a snappy design by Diller Scofidio & Renfro.
There is no immediacy in his
work, and like the ceramicist, Weinberg must plan his pieces, leaving some to bathe in the kiln for days before he performs his own version of Pate de
Verre.
Other exhibitions I'm eager to see include the Jewish Museum's «Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design» (Nov. 4 to Mar. 26), the
work of the designer of the Maison
Verre in Paris (1928 - 1932), the groundbreaking house known for its imaginative use of steel, glass and other industrial materials.
The exhibition included over 100 pieces made from 1986 until 2013, embracing a wide range of
works, from his earliest series to Photograms, cliché -
verres, to the new, digitally manipulated color photographs.
Alison exhibits both locally and internationally and her
work is held in several public collections; the National Museum of Ireland recently acquired a large pate de
verre vessel for the «Contemporary Craft Collection».
[1] Then came stark
works of broken gelatin (1984), graphic - like arrays of tiles (1985), Polaroids of simple fabric drapes (1988), and then a major widening of his range to include pre-made antique photographs, outdoor still - life, artificial and natural light sources, and most notably color - filtered meditations on architecture, including Philip Johnson's Glass House in Connecticut and the Maison de
Verre in Paris.
At POTSE 68, he will introduce his new project called Le Grand
Verre, (a reference to Marcel Duchamp's iconic
work by the same name) it merges abstract painting, photography and light art into new perspectives on the history of art.
This inaugural exhibition will include
works ranging from 2004 to 2010: the 16 mm film projection, Pig (2004); a video projection, Lightbeam (2007); Petit
Verre (2007), a processor automated shadow theatre with sound; and Dokumentarfilm (2004), a video
work that shows the delicate movement of mist in a forest.
The conversation will revolve around the technique of «
Verre Eglomisé» and other aspects of the artist's
work.
Seeing the totality of Welling's
work, in a lucid installation by the architecture firm Johnston Marklee, clarifies connections such as those between the New Abstractions, (1998 - 2000), large photograms of deep black bars on white paper, recalling Franz Kline paintings, and the rigor of his straightforward pictures of modern architecture such as Maison de
Verre (2009).
After a visit to the Maison De
Verre in Paris, I called it a green model for our times, being an urban, live /
work, healthy redevelopment that was a demonstration of industrial materials and technologies.