Markus Krottendorfer / Group XXXV, Oct 2012 - Mar 2013

GROUP XXXV

3/9/13 to 3/10/13

Mackey Apartments and Garages 1137 S. Cochran Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90019

Markus Krottendorfer visited and documented numerous sites in Western states where aerospace, astronomy and architecture converge. His images formed a traveler's archive of the infrastructural legacy of twentieth-century U.S. space exploration. For the exhibition, Krottendorfer highlighted both the Biosphere II in Arizona – a vast, hermetically sealed glass building supporting a small ecosystem and experimenting with the viability of future space colonies – and the simulated Martian landscape (MarsYard) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Cal Tech in Pasadena. Visitors were presented with visual tours around the locations that highlighted and questioned both the idea of observation and the observer.