Pablo Bronstein's 4 Facades is an original sketch for an architectural installation. Intervening with life-sized space, the installation posed a skyline physically cut out of a wall. Considering the drawings as ?dress rehearsals? to the final piece, Bronstein approaches architecture as a performative entity. Presenting popular buildings as pared down symbols, Bronstein plays with ideas of scale, his tiny blue prints framing the colossal as minimalist suggestion.
BIOGRAPHY
1977Born
Lives and works in London
Pablo Bronstein works primarily with 1980s postmodernist and 18th century post-revolutionary French architecture. Finding parallels between their decadent pretensions and their demonstration of precise moments in history via formalist structure, these periods, for Bronstein, define what it is to be a citizen, embracing the heroic as a uniting social value. Basing his Monument? on Jean-Pierre Louis Laurent Houel's The Storm of the Bastille, Bronstein gives the famous painting a facelift a la pomo architect Michael Graves. Using Graves trademark pastel tones and stylized patterns, Bronstein authors an alternate history: breathtakingly impressive, and hauntingly crypt-like.
Pablo Bronstein uses architecture as a means to engage with power: of history, monuments, and the built environment. Using pen and ink on paper, his acutely drafted drawings capture an archival romance of a grand age, a nostalgic longing for the imposing and imperial. Adopting the styles of various architects and movements, his elaborate designs become plausible inventions, both paying homage to and critiquing the emblems of civil engineering. In Elevation and Interior, Bronstein's plan borders on abstraction. Depicting the history of architecture from a simple hole in the ground, to a hut, Byzantine temple, Baroque cathedral, enshrined in the cold industrial shell of a modernist shed, Bronstein dissects the lineage of ideas and ideologies, all pastiched together with a dandyish pomo flair.
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Angela Dufresne and Bruce Lee and another famous yet un-nameable man on the
shore in front of an unmade building by Frank Lloyd Wright called the Donahue Triptych.Atop a wall of craggy rock, theatrically backlit by an early evening sky, arched walkways connect two wings of a high modernist habitat. Based on a drawing of an unmade building by Frank Lloyd Wright commissioned by the Donahue family, Dufresne's painting is a dream landscape, imbued with the spirit of visionary architecture. It is one of many examples in the artist's work of "places that should have been but never were, that exist only as fantasy." The artist often discreetly inserts herself into her own compositions; unmasked in this case in the long, whimsical title, she picks her way along the shore in the company of two male celebrities, one identified and one not.
selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001 Artpact , The Harlem Flophouse, New York
Collabratory, Gail Gates Gallery, Brooklyn
Grrls, Untitled Space, New Haven
2000
Angela Dufresne, Off-Ramp Gallery, Brooklyn
1999 Fine Arts Works Center Invitational, Provincetown
1998 Angela Dufresne, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
1996 Trace, The Dead Space Gallery, Portland
1995 The New Degenerate Show, The Lab, San Francisco
Angela Dufresne, Gallery Rebelloso, Minneapolis
Recent Works, The Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco
1993 The Five Jerome Artists, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis
Artist Angela Dufresne about one of her newest works. Considering the 36-year-old painter's penchant for amplified colors and large canvases, psychedelic inspiration comes as no surprise. Electrified by a bold palette, her landscapes are infused with modernist structures that evoke the spirit of visionary architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Walter Gropius, and her buildings recall the romance the world once had with the ideals of modernism and its promises to transform everyday life. "It's almost like I'm resurrecting that romantic fantasy of whatever modernists wanted to achieve. Instead, we're surrounded with strip malls and suburbs." Because of her original perspective and vibrant execution, Dufresne has begun to draw not only attention but also respect in the art world.
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