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17/9/2000

Entropia & From Outside / From Inside

Henry Urbach Architecture, New York

Henry Urbach Architecture is pleased to announce its expanded gallery space designed by LOT/EK. The opening exhibitions, Entropia by Kadambari Baxi and Reinhold Martin, and From Outside/From Inside by Katharina Bosse, each considers in its own way the transmutation of space through various combinations of accident and design.

Entropia is a multimedia installation in three parts. Investigating what they call "yesterday's future," Baxi and Martin cast a critical glance at selected artifacts of mid-century Modernism and submit them to a process of radical devolution. Baxi and Martin appropriate three buildings the First City National Bank in Houston (1961, Gordon Bunshaft/SOM), the Formica House for the New York World¹s Fair (1964, Emil A. Schmidlin), and the US Embassy in Saigon (1965, Curtis & Davis), and systematically interrupt their bureaucratic logic to set forth alternative spatial propositions. An ensemble of architectural drawings, stereoscopic models, and interactive video projections one mixes mid-century film footage with simulated walk-throughs of the transformed buildings; the other takes the gallery space itself and proposes a possible architectural inversion engage the viewer in a complex and disorienting series of chance spatial events.

Kadambari Baxi and Reinhold Martin share an architecture and media practice in New York City. Martin is a graduate of the Ph.D. program in architecture at Princeton and teaches at Columbia University. Baxi completed the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, and was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship this year. Baxi and Martin's work was included in the recent Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial as well as Work + Culture in Linz, Austria. Their second book, Entropia, has just been released by Black Dog Publishing, and their Homeoffice drawings belong to the permanent collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art. This is their first solo exhibition.

From Outside/From Inside is an exhibition of color photographs by Katharina Bosse. This series, completed in 1994 and exhibited in Europe but never the United States, incorporates portraits of spaces and individuals that reveal moments of extreme overlap between interior and exterior realms. By focusing our attention on the complexity of constructed surfaces from glass walls that multiply perceived space to clothing and wallpaper that incorporate naturalistic color and imagery Bosse documents moments of spatial interplay at once banal and bizarre.

Katharina Bosse is an artist living and working in New York. She studied photography in Bielefeld, Germany, and has exhibited extensively in Europe. Bosse's first U.S. solo show, Ten Rooms for Sex, took place at Henry Urbach Architecture last year, and this coming October she will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Ulm. Her photographs have been included in numerous publications, including Contemporary German Photography (Taschen, 1997) and Strip (Steidl, 1998), as well as Spin, Dutch, and Nest magazines. Bosse's work is found in numerous private and corporate collections, as well as the photography collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Museum of Modern Art. Her book, Surface Tension, will be released by Kruse Verlag this fall.

For further information and images, contact Henry Urbach Architecture, (212) 627-0974.

Henry Urbach Architecture - 526 West 26th Street New York 10011 - tel: (212)627-0974

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