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Dialogues, Art And Architecture
An exhibition of architectural models by Hariri and Hariri Architecture in conversation with gallery artists opens at Nancy Hoffman on December 15, 2016 and continues through January 28, 2017. For the first time, Nancy Hoffman Gallery will show architectural models in juxtaposition to works by gallery artists.
鈥淒ialogues鈥� came about as a result of my visit to Hariri and Hariri Architecture鈥檚 offices, where models, created over the years, are readily viewable. The models are not simply architectural models, practical proposals for projects, residential, commercial, etc. These are models with a vision. Each is a work of art, made with tender loving care over months; each is artful, intriguing, inspiring and stimulating. Each exemplary of the firm鈥檚 vision to 鈥渃reate places of contemplation, places that incorporate time and memory, in which there is a sense of a passage or a journey.鈥�
I was stimulated by the visuals in the models and how several of them were like a melody to songs
by gallery artists. A model for a building constructed like a bridge, Fog Habitat proposed for The Embarcadero in San Francisco, called to mind Don Eddy鈥檚 recent paintings of the bridges of New York, such as Metal City. Hariri and Hariri Architecture鈥檚 unconventional lighthouse, Beacon of Light, a stone, glass and steel sculpture struck a chord with Sarah Bridgland Constructions on paper of balsa wood, paint, construction board and oil pastel. The model for 鈥淢obius Strip Hybrid Stair鈥� echoed Ilan Averbuch鈥檚 The Tower and the Snail, a sculpture with a tower not unlike the spiral of the staircase. Visual parallels.
Rather than address the topic of art and architecture didactically or historically, this exhibition is a visual celebration of the communality of form as it moves from architecture to painting, from architecture to sculpture, from architecture to drawing.
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An exhibition of architectural models by Hariri and Hariri Architecture in conversation with gallery artists opens at Nancy Hoffman on December 15, 2016 and continues through January 28, 2017. For the first time, Nancy Hoffman Gallery will show architectural models in juxtaposition to works by gallery artists.
鈥淒ialogues鈥� came about as a result of my visit to Hariri and Hariri Architecture鈥檚 offices, where models, created over the years, are readily viewable. The models are not simply architectural models, practical proposals for projects, residential, commercial, etc. These are models with a vision. Each is a work of art, made with tender loving care over months; each is artful, intriguing, inspiring and stimulating. Each exemplary of the firm鈥檚 vision to 鈥渃reate places of contemplation, places that incorporate time and memory, in which there is a sense of a passage or a journey.鈥�
I was stimulated by the visuals in the models and how several of them were like a melody to songs
by gallery artists. A model for a building constructed like a bridge, Fog Habitat proposed for The Embarcadero in San Francisco, called to mind Don Eddy鈥檚 recent paintings of the bridges of New York, such as Metal City. Hariri and Hariri Architecture鈥檚 unconventional lighthouse, Beacon of Light, a stone, glass and steel sculpture struck a chord with Sarah Bridgland Constructions on paper of balsa wood, paint, construction board and oil pastel. The model for 鈥淢obius Strip Hybrid Stair鈥� echoed Ilan Averbuch鈥檚 The Tower and the Snail, a sculpture with a tower not unlike the spiral of the staircase. Visual parallels.
Rather than address the topic of art and architecture didactically or historically, this exhibition is a visual celebration of the communality of form as it moves from architecture to painting, from architecture to sculpture, from architecture to drawing.
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