DILLER + SCOFIDIO @ Whitney Museum
THE ABERRANT ARCHITECTURES OF DILLER + SCOFIDIO TO BE PRESENTED AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Among the most innovative architects at work today, the husband/wife pair of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio are engaged in work that incorporates architecture, the performing arts and the visual arts. From March 1 to June 1, 2003, the Whitney Museum of American Art will
present Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio, the first major American museum retrospective of the work of the maverick creative team.
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Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio will feature mixed-media installations, models, photographs, projections, videos, and a variety of objects. The exhibition, co-curated by Aaron Betsky, Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, and K. Michael Hays, adjunct curator of architecture at the Whitney and Director of the history and theory program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he is also Professor of Architectural Theory, will be presented in the fourth floor Emily Fisher Landau Galleries. Known for their interest in ideas of spectacle and display, Diller + Scofidio are developing the exhibition design in collaboration with the co-curators.
"Like visual artists, Diller + Scofidio utilize their formal architectural training to create visionary works, exploring architectural concepts of space, environment, and function," said Maxwell L. Anderson, Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum. "They raise fascinating questions about the ways we see ourselves, the ways we are seen by others, and the ways we experience art, life, and museums."
For the last two decades, the New York firm of Diller + Scofidio-- they formed their cross-disciplinary collaborative studio in 1979--has made an astonishing range of related site-specific art works, video works, performance pieces and buildings. Although they have worked on several larger scale projects, including Blur Building, a media pavilion in the form of a gigantic cloud designed for Swiss Expo 2002, Diller + Scofidio are primarily involved in smaller, experimental, and thematically driven works.
"Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio are less concerned with traditional architectural work and construction than with re-imagining what it means to make things in a society obsessed with media and technology," said co-curator K. Michael Hays. "In the style of Marcel Duchamp or the surrealists, their conceptual projects explore the avant-garde tradition of making the familiar strange, even ominous, by creating environments in which the objects and modern comforts of our everyday world are made to reveal their contradictions, ironies, and inefficiencies. Diller + Scofidio also toy with the notions of spectatorship, participation, and audience, using emerging technologies in surveillance, information, and entertainment in order to register the impact of these forces on our lives."
"The work of Diller + Scofidio removes from architecture the notion that it is about shelter, comfort and functionality," writes Aaron Betsky, co-curator of the show, in his catalogue essay. "These hybrid architects/artists create work that makes visible the technologies of desire and the surveillance of objects and people. In doing so, they construct an alternative to a culture of display in which the continual presentation of goods appears to be the central task of our social and economic system. In short, these artists display display."
For the exhibition, the artists will produce a number of new works and recreate some of their most important site-specific pieces. One installation relates to a work in progress: the design for Eyebeam Atelier, an exhibition/lab/performance space that will be built in Chelsea in 2007. For another piece, the artists will re-imagine their original Blur Building by creating a video interpretation that also uses collage, drawings, computer animation, and other basic technology. The Blur Building, a media pavilion designed for the Swiss Expo 2002, is situated at the base of Lake Neuchatel in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. It is made of filtered lake water shot as a fine mist through 31,000 fog nozzles, creating an artificial cloud that surrounds a steel structure measuring 300 feet wide by 200 feet deep by 65 feet high.
Diller and Scofidio are both trained as architects. Elizabeth Diller is currently a Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, while Ricardo Scofidio is a Professor of Architecture at Cooper Union. Their practice is based in New York City. They have realized site-specific installations in New York, San Francisco, San Jose and several cities in Europe. They were recently awarded the commission for the new home of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. They have completed a major site-specific piece for the International Terminal at JFK Airport and have been commissioned to create a public art piece for the Moscone Center Expansion project in San Francisco. They have collaborated on performance pieces with such groups as Charleroi/Danses, Ballet Opéra Lyon, Hotel Pro Forma, and Dumb Type. Their "social housing" project in Gifu, Japan, the "Slither Building" was constructed in 2000.
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have received numerous awards and fellowships. In 1999, they were awarded the first MacArthur Foundation fellowship in the field of architecture. They have also received an Obie for Creative Achievement in Off Broadway Theater for Jet Lag, a James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Design for the Brasserie in New York City, and a Progressive Architecture Design Award for the Blur Building. Other awards include the MacDermott Award for Creative Achievement from M.I.T., the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, and the Tiffany Award for Emerging Artists. Fellowships include the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
There will also be a major exhibition catalogue that will include complete illustrations of the exhibition and a survey of the work of Diller + Scofidio. The catalogue will include an interview with Diller and Scofidio by artist Laurie Anderson, an introduction by co-curator Aaron Betsky and an essay by co-curator K. Michael Hays, as well as contributions from artist Jordan Crandall; Edward Dimendberg, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Film and Video, and Germanic Languages and Literatures, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; cultural critic RoseLee Goldberg; and Ashley Schafer, editor of Praxis Journal of Writing + Building.
Support is provided by the Director's Council and the National Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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The Whitney Museum of American Art is the leading advocate of 20th- and 21st-century American art. Founded in 1930, the Museum's holdings have grown to include nearly 13,000 works of art representing more than 2,000 artists. The Permanent Collection is the preeminent collection of 20th-century American art and includes the entire artistic estate of Edward Hopper, as well as significant works by Marsh, Calder, Gorky, Hartley, O'Keeffe, Rauschenberg, Reinhardt, and Johns, among other artists.
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