Mauricio Rafael Duk Gonzáles / Group XIII, Oct 01 - Feb 02

OPEN HOUSE - OPEN STUDIO

10/1/01 to 2/28/02

The activities took place at a variety of venues including: the Mackey Apartments Garage, 1137 - 1141 South Cochran Avenue, Los Angeles, CA; the MAK Center for Art and Architecture L.A at the Schindler House, 835 North Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA; the Flor y Canto, an autonomous community center, 3706 N. Figueroa Avenue in the Highland Park section, Los Angeles, CA

Mauricio Duk, from Mexico, presented "The Un_Invited," a structure designed as a temporary extension of the Schindler House through the continuation of “frames and spaces” derived from the original scheme for the house. Building upon the "ruins" of a former Martin Kippenberger installation—a subway shaft from the artist’s "Metro-Net" series—a fifteen-foot bamboo and canvas tower arrived without invitation. The tower was linked to the Schindler House by an artificial green wall that formed a new patio through a continuous "folding" of the existing courtyards. Inspired by concepts of defragmentation and reinterpretation both philosophically and architecturally, Duk made the viewer aware of the shift from the intimacy of the horizontal-private scheme to the exposed vertical-public one whose exterior elicited a response to Hollywood’s estrangement. Dualism was invoked by a semi-buried chamber for meditation in the interior and a showcase to screen images of the former inhabitant’s life and metaphors of the "unhomely" in the exterior. It was a place where Schindler shook hands with Sigmund Freud, Ludwig, Wittgenstein, and Arnold Schoenberg.