[FORTHCOMING] Lehrstücke / Didactic Pieces

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[FORTHCOMING] Lehrstücke / Didactic PiecesFrom the very outset of their collaboration in 1967, the architect couple Trix and Robert Haussmann subjected the principles of modernist functionalism to a reductio ad absurdum. It all started with the Swiss Werkbunds Chair Fun exhibition (also in 1967) of Haussmann objects like their Anti Chair: a chair made of fluorescent tubes that would likely collapse if anyone actually tried to sit on it. This spoof of functionalism eventually led, in 1978, to

creating an altogether enigmatic constitution of his dreams and memories

In Disguise and Deception

The images draw on Peter Maloney’s experience of the HIV/AIDS pandemic (as an HIV-positive person who lost much of their social group during the 1980s and early 1990s) and on photography’s specific relationship to memory

The title of this small volume by New York artist Elizabeth Peyton

depending on the format and choice of drawing medium

Helga Paris (b

It consists of archive material she has found in the estate of her great-grandfather

and mythology converge

Nearly 50 years after its inception

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her deep reading

the presence of the nation-state and nationalisms in art history remain steadfast

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