POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions
11/06/2013.
Exhibition. Storefront [NYC] USA 18/06 > 20/07/2013
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
With an image by Perry Kulper (already published years ago in no. 012-013 of METALOCUS, his drawings are always extraordinaries!) and trying a classic, from June 19 – July 20, 2013, Storefront for Art and Architecture will present POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions, an exhibition that investigates what constitutes a position in architecture today and how that might be generated through the architect’s drawing. The exhibition presents 30 original drawings of the Storefront gallery space at 97 Kenmare Street by an international group of architects asked to go “from protocols, to obsessions, to positions.”
Perry Kulper, storefront, a cosmology, 2012. From Aesthetics/Anestetics, 2012. Courtesy of Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Andrew Zago. From Aesthetics/Anestetics, 2012. Storefront for Art and Architecture. Pencil and gouache on paper 18 x 24 inches. Commissioned by Storefront for Art & Architecture. Courtesy of Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Fountain LES 2013, by David Molander. Courtesy of Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Interior all and panels. Courtesy of Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Dream land. Courtesy of Storefront for Art and Architecture.
As an image based on codes and systems of representation that establish a space of legibility between inherited and new forms, the architectural drawing tends to operate either as a technical tool of communication based on protocols and codes or in a diametrically opposed spectrum as an artistic device completely detached from the constraints of architectural practice. While one end of the spectrum is overcharged by the need to communicate, the complex or mysterious beauty of illegibility haunts the other. While protocols engage with a disciplinary temporality and obsessions are usually atemporal, positions address timely, current issues beyond those typically addressed in the discipline of architecture or an architect’s body of work.
POP presents thirty drawings by thirty architects that address both ends of the architectural drawing spectrum, understanding its codes and protocols and deploying the personal obsession of each architect in the articulation of a position now.
Architects include:
Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano -LOT-EK -[New York]; Adam Frampton [Hong Kong -New York]; Amale Andraos -Work AC- [New York]; Ania Jaworska; Another Pamphlet [New York]; Arturo Scheidegger -UMW- [Santiago]; Bernard Tschumi [New York]; Caroline O’Donell – CODA- [Ithaca]; Eric Owen Moss [Los Angeles]; Fernando Romero -FREE- [Mexico-NY]; Filipe Magalhaes [Lisbon]; Form_ula [New York]; Gia Wolf [New York]; Hayley Eber -EFGH- [New York]; Hedwig Heinsman –DUS- [Rotterdam]; Juan Herreros [Madrid]; KPF [New York]; Lola Sheppard - Lateral Office- [Toronto]; Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich -P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S- [Los Angeles]; Mark Shepard [Buffalo]; Michel Rojkind [Mexico DF]; Michele Marchetti -Sanrocco- [Milan]; Neil Spiller [London]; Rafi Segal [New York]; Stan Allen [New York]; Thomas Kelley [Buffalo]; Veronika Valk [Tallinn]; Viviana Peña – Ctrl G- [Medellin]; and Yansong Ma -MAD- [Beijing]; among others.
POP will be on display from June 19 - July 20, 2013. An opening reception will take place on June 18, 2013 from 7pm-9pm. The exhibition is Storefront’s second annual architectural drawing show that aims to contribute and transform our understanding of architectural drawings in the 21st century. The drawings on display at the exhibition will be auctioned at the close of the exhibition and proceeds will support Storefront’s exhibitions and programs.
Venue.- StoreFront. 97 Kenmare Street. 10012 New York, NY. USA.
Dates.- Tuesday June 18, 2013 – Saturday July 20, 2013.
