John Baldessari: Brick Bldg, Lg Windows W/xlent Views, Partially Furnished, Renowned Architect - (Non-mint)

Hardcover | 29.44 x 2.01 x 22.17 cm | 136 pp

Kerber | 2009 | 9783866783065

This book documents Baldessari's 2009 commission to produce an installation for Mies van der Rohe's Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld. Baldessari decided to "rub the building up the wrong way" with humorous interventions.

Mies van der Rohe stated that he "wanted to make this house much more in glass, but the client did not like that. I had great troubles." Fifty years later Baldessari's project imagines the house up for sale, as if he wanted to put an end to all those troubles, once and for all. BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W/XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED, RENOWNED ARCHITECT, as it goes in the mock ad he used to announce the installation. With his cryptic humour, he puts his finger on the sore spot that made the Krefeld villas Haus Lange and Haus Esters a touchy matter for Mies for the rest of his life. Baldessari's concept, summed up concisely in a few instructions, reads in fact like an anathema to Mies van der Rohe's concept with a focus on two central features of the building: the brickwork and the windows.

PLEASE NOTE: This book is a NON-MINT item. NON-MINT books are new but are either ex-display copies or warehouse marked - minor cosmetic imperfections such as scuffs, marks, or minor dents to the covers.