Casa de Vidro. Lina Bo Bardi in dialogue with Sverre Fehn
The exhibition presents Lina Bo Bardi's glasshouse in S茫o Paulo, Casa de Vidro (1950鈥�52) inside Sverre Fehn's glass pavilion (1997鈥�2008). The juxtaposition serves as a starting point for a dialogue between two architects who never met, and who worked in distant corners of the world. However, there are surprising similarities between their respective oeuvres: the sculptural use of reinforced concrete, their long-standing commitment to rehabilitation projects and adaptive re-use, and their interest in exhibition design.
The exhibition also encompasses a dialogue between the architectural idioms of Bo Bardi and Fehn and the visual language of artist Veronika Kellndorfer. The National Museum 鈥� Architecture has commissioned the Berlin-based artist to reflect Bo Bardi's Casa de Vidro in a new installation created especially for Fehn's glass pavilion. Kellndorfer employs transformed and rasterized photographs of the building, which are silkscreened onto huge glass sheets, creating a representation of the house that is at once spectral and painterly. The installation includes a sculptural re-enactment of Casa de Vidro鈥檚 suspended patio on the scale 1:2.
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The exhibition presents Lina Bo Bardi's glasshouse in S茫o Paulo, Casa de Vidro (1950鈥�52) inside Sverre Fehn's glass pavilion (1997鈥�2008). The juxtaposition serves as a starting point for a dialogue between two architects who never met, and who worked in distant corners of the world. However, there are surprising similarities between their respective oeuvres: the sculptural use of reinforced concrete, their long-standing commitment to rehabilitation projects and adaptive re-use, and their interest in exhibition design.
The exhibition also encompasses a dialogue between the architectural idioms of Bo Bardi and Fehn and the visual language of artist Veronika Kellndorfer. The National Museum 鈥� Architecture has commissioned the Berlin-based artist to reflect Bo Bardi's Casa de Vidro in a new installation created especially for Fehn's glass pavilion. Kellndorfer employs transformed and rasterized photographs of the building, which are silkscreened onto huge glass sheets, creating a representation of the house that is at once spectral and painterly. The installation includes a sculptural re-enactment of Casa de Vidro鈥檚 suspended patio on the scale 1:2.
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