Nine Budde / Group XXIII, Oct 06 - Mar 07

EXQUISITE CORPSE

3/8/07 to 3/11/07

MAK Center for Art and Architecture L.A at the Schindler House, 835 North Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA

Referencing Schindler’s quest to develop an architecture that both embodies and incorporates nature, Berlin-based artist Nine Budde built a clay miniature of the Mackey Apartments. Continuing a theme in her work that contemplates destruction and its positive results, Budde submitted the model to the force of a strong earthquake. The structure first became the subject of a photograph, and after it was “ruined” became the nurturing “soil” for Japanese seeds. Much as Schindler explored and expanded the meanings of interior and exterior, the model served alternate functions. The model in bloom was the subject of a second photograph.