Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Le Corbusier

In Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center - Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Untitled" (Placebo - Landscape - For Roni)
November 8, 2007–January 4, 2008

Shimmers. Corb's relationship to the ground is always interesting, so this posthumous placement of a Gonzelez-Torres opus, one even with the word "landscape" in the title, works well in the Carpenter Center.


Of course, I'd also love to see it in Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology! Mies's works also bear an interesting relationship to the ground.

The Mies Society, and IIT's College of Architecture are producing art in Crown Hall, including a collaboration with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. IIT architecture students are working on designs and environments for dances. They'll premiere in Crown Hall on January 25 and 26th - by invitation only. The first public performance will be January 27 at 5:00 pm.

And of course, the lobby of Lever House, as of tonight, is filled with 30 dead sheep, one dead shark, two sides of beef, 300 sausages, and a pair of doves.

-E