Inigo Manglano-Ovalle: Fundacio "La Caixa". (Madrid).One of Madrid-born artist Inigo Manglano-Ovalle's greatest successes was his least noticeable--his design of the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2001 Mies van der Rohe Van Der Ro·he See Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe. exhibition. His contribution made sense, since the artist continually reframes the legacy of midcentury modernism's themes of science, industry, and globalism glob·al·ism n. A national geopolitical policy in which the entire world is regarded as the appropriate sphere for a state's influence. glob in such pieces as Le Baiser/The Kiss, 1999, a video in which the artist plays a window washer cleaning Mies's Farnsworth House The Farnsworth House, designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945-51, is a one-room weekend retreat in a once-rural setting, located 55 miles southwest of Chicago's downtown on a 60 acre estate site adjoining the Fox River (Illinois) south of the city of ; and in Cloud Prototype No. 1, 2003, a titanium rendering of a cumulonimbus cumulonimbus: see cloud. thundercloud. The latter was made using computerized machinery developed by the automotive industry, registering the impact of new technology on everyday life. Fittingly, this sixty-work show has a "science consultant" (Ivo Mesquita) but no curator. May 9-July 27. |
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