Luisa Lambri
Luisa Lambri — New Works
16/02/2013 - 30/04/2013
16 febbraio - 30 aprile 2013
Per oltre un decennio le fotografie di Luisa Lambri hanno esplorato e decostruito l’architettura modernista attraverso uno sguardo femminile. La sua ricerca si è concentrata quasi esclusivamente sulla relazione tra lo spazio e la luce, gli ambienti e la loro illuminazione, sugli spazi di transizione, di passaggio, e sulla relazione tra interno e esterno. Vediamo porte, corridoi, scale, e finestre di ogni tipo e forma dietro a cui si percepisce una natura non ancora addomesticata. Astrazione, minimalismo, femminismo, il corpo e l’autoritratto, tutto questo contribuisce in modo ugualmente importante alle composizioni dell’artista.
Dopo avere esaminato il lavoro di architetti come Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright e John Lautner sulla costa occidentale degli Stati Uniti nel corso degli ultimi anni, ed essersi concentrata sulla relazione tra la loro opera e il paesaggio aspro tipico della California, soffuso da luce intensa e con la sua vegetazione dirompente, il lavoro di Luisa Lambri ha preso una nuova, eppure conseguente, direzione.
Per la sua serie di fotografie più recenti Lambri ha fotografato le opere di alcuni artisti legati al movimento Light and Space del Sud della California come James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Peter Alexander, oltre che importanti lavori di Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, e Lucio Fontana. In tutti i casi Lambri ha esplorato le loro opere e installazioni come gli interni, con i loro materiali, i riflessi, le superfici, lo spazio e il vuoto che sembrano creare. Mentre nei suoi primi lavori gli spazi interni delle architetture sono rese in modo astratto, in queste ultime opere sono i lavori stessi degli artisti a offrirsi come spazi astratti in grado di comunicare interessi simili a quelli dell’artista: la forma, il colore, lo spazio, la trasparenza, l’astrazione, la luce, e l’esperienza dei fenomeni sensoriali che essi creano.
Lambri lavora in serie di fotografie, spesso creando immagini simili e apparentemente infinite variazioni dello stesso spazio o oggetto. Se a prima vista il lavoro può sembrare uno studio sistematico di un particolare edificio o opera d’arte, le fotografie sono in realtà documenti altamente soggettivi dell’esperienza all’interno degli ambienti che l’artista fotografa. Per questo motivo l’installazione delle fotografie nello spazio e’ importante quanto la loro produzione. Ogni nuovo spazio che accoglie un’installazione di fotografie presenta qualità uniche con le quali l’artista interagisce, rendendo così ogni installazione un’opera site-specific. Le opere non sono mai installate indipendentemente dallo spazio e spesso rimandano all’originale esperienza dei luoghi fotografati.
La mostra si divide in due parti. La sala principale mostrerà delle fotografie fatte da Lambri nell’estate del 2012 durante una visita alla Chinati Foundation a Marfa, Texas, basate su lavori di Donald Judd e Dan Flavin, mentre la prima stanza della galleria presenterà delle fotografie basate su una ricostruzione dell’Ambiente Spaziale di Lucio Fontana del 1968.
Tra le mostre recenti di Luisa Lambri ricordiamo Portrait, all’Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum di Boston ; Being There all’Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Front Room: Luisa Lambri, Baltimore Museum of Art; Locations, Menil Collection, Houston; Envisioning Buildings: Reflecting Architecture in Contemporary Art Photography, MAK, Vienna; Architectural Environments for Tomorrow. New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Inside Out. Photography after Form: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami; The Shapes of Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; People meet in Architecture, 12a Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Venezia. Ha partecipato alle Biennali di Venezia del 1999 e 2003, oltre che a quelle di Liverpool e Shanghai. Il suo lavoro e’ rappresentato in numerose collezioni internazionali tra cui Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Menil Collection, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Carnegie Museum of Arts, Pittsburgh.
Luisa Lambri vive e lavora a Los Angeles.
Si ringrazia la Chinati Foundation, Marfa, e la Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milano.
Foto: Luisa Lambri, Untitled (100 Untitled Works in Mill Aluminium 1982-1986, #03), 2012
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LUISA LAMBRI – New Works
February 16th – March 30th 2013
For over a decade Luisa Lambri’s photographs have deconstructed modernist architecture through a feminine gaze. Her works have focused mostly on the relationship between light and space, environments and their illumination as well as photographing spaces of in-between, of coming and going and outside and inside. We see doors, hallways, staircases as well as windows of all shapes and forms, behind which we encounter wild, and not yet domesticated, nature. Aspects of geometric abstraction, minimalism as well as feminism, the body, and self-portraiture play an equally important part in the compositions of the artist.
After examining the work of West Coast architects such as Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright and John Lautner for the past ten years, and focusing on the interplay between the design of their buildings and the rugged environment of California with its intense light and forceful vegetation, Lambri’s work is now moving into another, yet related, direction.
For her latest series Lambri has photographed the work of artists connected to the so-called Light and Space movement in Southern California such as James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Peter Alexander, as well as seminal pieces by Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Lucio Fontana. In each case Lambri is exploring interiors, their materials, reflections, surfaces and the space and void that they seem to create. While the interiors of the architects were rendered abstract in Lambri’s previous works, here the works of the artists are photographed as highly abstract spaces that speak of similar concerns as those of Lambri: form, color, space, translucency, abstraction, and light, as well as the experience of the sensory phenomena they create.
Lambri works in series, often taking several photographs to create variations of the same space or object. While upon first glance the work may seem like a systematic exploration of a particular building or artwork, the photographs are in fact highly subjective records of the experiences within the environments Lambri takes pictures in. As a result the installation of the works is as important as their production. Each new environment she presents her work in has own unique qualities she reacts to, making every installation site-specific. The works are not installed according to each other but in relation to the exhibition spaces and often recreate an experience similar to the original spaces.
The exhibition is divided into two parts. The main gallery will feature works taken by Lambri in the summer of 2012 during a visit to the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, based on works by Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, while the first room will present photographs focusing on Lucio Fontana’s Ambiente Spaziale (Spatial Environment).
Luisa Lambri’s most recent solo exhibitions include Portrait at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; Being There at the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Other exhibitions include Front Room: Luisa Lambri at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Locations at the Menil Collection, Houston, Envisioning Buildings: Reflecting Architecture in Contemporary Art Photography at MAK, Vienna, Architectural Environments for Tomorrow. New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Inside Out. Photography after Form,: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami, The Shapes of Space at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and People meet in Architecture, 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy. She has participated in both the 1999 and 2003 Venice Biennials, as well as in the Liverpool and Shanghai Biennials. Her work is represented in numerous international collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Menil Collection, Houston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; the Carnegie Museum of Arts, Pittsburgh.
Luisa Lambri lives and works in Los Angeles.
Thanks to Chinati Foundation, Marfa and Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan.
Photo: Luisa Lambri, Untitled (100 Untitled Works in Mill Aluminium 1982-1986, #03), 2012