Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most prolific and renowned architects of the 20th Century, a radical designer and intellectual who embraced new technologies and materials, pioneered do-it-yourself construction systems as well as Avant-Garde experimentation, and advanced original theories with regards to nature, urban planning, and social politics (Part II).
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: MoMA Archive
Frank Lloyd Wright is widely considered the greatest architect of the 20th century, and the greatest American architect of all time. He perfected a distinctly American style of architecture that emphasized simplicity and natural beauty in contrast to the elaborate and ornate architecture that had prevailed in Europe.
By Efi Michalarou
Diane Arbus was one of the most original and influential American Photographers of the 20th Century and was known for her photographs of outsiders and ordinary people of society. Diane Arbus is the kind of complex, ambitious, taboo-smashing artist whose life, work and the connection between the two, are endlessly fascinating. Her photographs, particularly those of whom she termed “freaks”, set off a shockwave in the ’60s. And they still have the power shock the viewer’s psyche.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Fritz Scholder is credited with having reconceptualized the portrayal of Native Americans in contemporary art away from traditional, romanticized stereotypes to a “new realism” with candid, truthful, even startling, images of modern-day Native people. He became famous for his ground-breaking resolve to “paint the Indian real, not red.” His myriad approaches to the subject established his place as a leading progenitor of the New American Indian Art movement, which opened the door to Native American artists for invigorated prominence and a new artistic freedom in the contemporary art world.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo M.M.K. Archive
The exhibition project “Carrying” activates spaces inside and outside the building of Museum Brandhorst. Works by nternational artists occupy historically charged sites and transit zones of the museum as well as the public space. Architectural interventions, performances, paintings, and sound and film works enter into dialogue with the museum and interrogate the entanglement of military and cultural power.
By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Museum Brandhorst Archive
Aldo Rossi advocated the use of a limited range of building types and concern for the context in which a building is constructed. This postmodern approach, known as neorationalism, represents a reinvigoration of austere classicism. In addition to his built work, he is known for his writings, numerous drawings and paintings, and designs for furniture and other objects.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: MAXXI Archive
Aldo Rossi advocated the use of a limited range of building types and concern for the context in which a building is constructed. This postmodern approach, known as neorationalism, represents a reinvigoration of austere classicism. In addition to his built work, he is known for his writings, numerous drawings and paintings, and designs for furniture and other objects.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: MAXXI Archive
Architecture
Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (3/5/1931-4/9/1997)has achieved distinction as a theorist, author, artist, teacher and architect, in his native Italy as well as internationally. He accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design. Noted critic and historian, Vincent Scully, has compared him to Le Corbusier as a painter-architect. Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic and Pritzker juror has described Rossi as “a poet who happens to be an architect.”
By Efi Michalarou
Unflinching and at times dark, he captured intellectuals, luminaries, and members of New York City subculture in moments of disarmed vulnerability. Hujar embraced male sexuality unabashedly and was unafraid to examine death and dying. In her introduction to “Portraits in Life and Death”, Susan Sontag wrote, “…Fleshed and moist-eyed friends and acquaintances stand, sit, slouch, mostly lie – and are made to appear to meditate on their own mortality…Peter Hujar knows that portraits in life are always, also, portraits in death”.By Dimitris LempesisPhoto: Raven Row Archive
Michael Kenna is best known for his black-and-white landscape photography in which he often utilizes drawn-out exposure times, some up to 10 hours in length. Most of Michael Kenna’s photography is taken at dawn or at night, and he has commented that you can’t always see what’s otherwise noticeable during the day … with long exposures you can photograph what the human eye is incapable of seeing.By Dimitris LempesisPhoto: Robert Mann Gallery
Nobuyoshi Araki
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Nobuyoshi Araki (1940). For over half a century, Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki has devoted himself to plumbing the depths of that which is most intimate – the invisible, intangible spirit that animates our very flesh. In his hands, the erotic transcends the mere functionality of pornography and reveals the raw intensity of the emotional, physical, and psychological self that gives sex its power. Through documents or interviews, starting with: moments and memories, we reveal out from the past-unknown sides of big personalities, who left their indelible traces in time and history…By Dimitris Lempesis
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| "Treasures of a Cimarrón", Photojournalism/Documentary Category. by Pedro Genaro |
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| Vivienne Westwood Shoe New York City, 1993 Photo by Albert Watson |
