The exhibition uses the Graham Foundation’s historic Madlener House galleries as a double stage – a staging of mise-en-scénes to present contemporary and historic photographs, models, and drawings, as well as newly commissioned projects including movies, installations, and performance. Based on historical references such as nineteenth-century toy theaters, as well as Twentieth century models such as Aldo Rossi’s Little Scientific Theater, and David Hockney’s stage design for the Magic Flute, the project invites contemporary practitioners to rethink the ways in which architecture is created in relationship to theatricality and how it oscillates between reality and scenography to answer questions about space, depth, context, facade, and representation.
until 1 July 2017
Spaces without drama
curated by LIGA Space for Architecture, Ruth Estévez and Wonne Ickx
The Graham Foundation
4 West Burton Place, Chicago