Pavilion
A wooden pavilion: both archive display case and stage set for figures within small works on paper. The structure directly echoed the shape of the skylight and room, referencing the many cupolas of the Old College. Assorted found frames – not unlike some in the offices and museums of the university – held faux-archive photographs, watercolours and drawings of round and apexed buildings and poses, and rested on a shelf built into the structure. In particular, Bruno Taut’s prismatic 1914 Glashaus (Glass Pavilion) from the 1914 Cologne Werkbund Exhibition; an anachronistic example of architectural ‘expressionist reformism’. There are no surviving colour photographs depicting the glass roof and interior.
Some of the watercolour figures are taken from Man Ray’s Les Mystères du château de Dé, film in the Villa Noaille in Provence: a building as much stage set as architecture.
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