Eric Bell / Group XXXIX, Oct 2014 - Mar 2015

GROUP 39

3/13/15 to 3/15/15

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

Berlin-based collaborators Eric Bell and Kristoffer Frick focused on how the pursuit of comfort is a key part of the psychological experience of the built environment, emphasizing air, ventilation and climate-controlled environments. From early L.A. modernists’ enhancing the experience of nature to the central air-conditioning of suburban sprawl, the effort that usually goes into the perfection of Los Angeles’s so-called “perfect” weather, the psychotherapeutic tendency, makes for rich study. Thinking about the increasingly extreme environmental conditions in Southern California, Bell and Frick exhibited work made together with L.A.-based artist Nate Hess incorporating 3D scans of succulents. For the artists, these works, produced as high-definition computer renderings, represent ideas of adaptation and can be seen as an aesthetic reflection on their surroundings.