Four apertures [detail], installation view, Embassy Gallery, 2015
Studio object by Kit Craig (undated), plaster, steel, wood, Bo Bardi concrete aperture, wooden trestles.
Studio object by Kit Craig (undated), plaster, steel, wood, Bo Bardi concrete aperture, wooden trestles.
Tabouret Berger by Charlotte Perriand, designed c.1953. Re-fabricated to original specifications. European ash, Bo Bardi concrete aperture, wooden trestles.
Tabouret Berger by Charlotte Perriand, designed c.1953. Re-fabricated to original specifications. European ash, Bo Bardi concrete aperture, wooden trestles.
The Model and the Void, industrial 99% silver on polycarbonate, 2014. (Image: visitors to the Crystal Palace inspect a model of a mine crater, c.1920–25), Bo Bardi concrete aperture, wooden trestles.
The Model and the Void, industrial 99% silver on polycarbonate, 2014. (Image: visitors to the Crystal Palace inspect a model of a mine crater, c.1920–25), Bo Bardi concrete aperture, wooden trestles.
Model of the Underground Home, designed by Jay Swayze, exhibited at the 1964 World’s Fair, New York (1:150), Bo Bardi concrete aperture, wooden trestles.
Model of the Underground Home, designed by Jay Swayze, exhibited at the 1964 World’s Fair, New York (1:150), Bo Bardi concrete aperture, wooden trestles.
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These scaled reproductions of Lina Bo Bardi’s window apertures for SESC Pompeia (São Paulo, designed and built between 1977-86) were fabricated to support other artworks, loans and re-fabrications. First exhibited as part of the exhibition ‘MUD∞’ at Embassy Gallery (Edinburgh) in 2015, they form a formative part of a body of work based on Bo Bardi’s practice that also includes The Mouth of Hell (after Gregório de Matos, Lina Bo Bardi), 2016, exhibited in Another Reality: After Lina Bo Bardi at Stroon Den Haag (6 April – 3 July, 2016).
List of works
Aperture One
Model of the Underground Home, designed by Jay Swayze, exhibited at the 1964 World’s Fair, New York (1:150).
Bo Bardi concrete aperture, wooden trestles.
Aperture Two
Studio object by Kit Craig (undated), plaster, steel, wood.
Bo Bardi concrete aperture, wooden trestles.
Aperture Three
Tabouret Berger by Charlotte Perriand, designed c.1953. Re-fabricated to original specifications. European ash.
Bo Bardi concrete aperture, wooden trestles.
Aperture Four
The Model and the Void, industrial 99% silver on polycarbonate, 2014. (Image: visitors to the Crystal Palace inspect a model of a mine crater, c.1920-25).
Bo Bardi concrete aperture, wooden trestles.