Mousse Magazine

On Display

This issue of Mousse explores the ways in which concerns surrounding exhibition display and elements derived from exhibition architecture have been appropriated by contemporary artworks and art practices, and how artistic modes and attitudes have played a significant role in shaping the lexicon of exhibition design. We asked a diverse pool of guest contributors—artists, curators, writers, art and architecture critics—to select illuminating cases of cross-pollination, and to compile extended captions for their chosen images. Many more images are interspersed in the issue, and captioned in groups every few pages. The ordering is not chronological, nor by any means hierarchic. Mousse 61 is a partial mood board for this analysis of a significant and special relationship.

ADRIANO PEDROSA ON PICTURE GALLERY BY LINA BO BARDI

LARS JAKOB BANG LARSEN ON BELIEVE NOT EVERY SPIRIT, BUT TRY THE SPIRITS

GOSHKA MACUGA ON KABINETT DER ABSTRAKTEN BY EL LISSITZKY

UTE META BAUER ON TRINH T. MINH-HA

ANA MAZZEI ON GRUTA PAMPULHA BY DÉBORA BOLSONI

NICOLAS DE OLIVEIRA AND NICOLA OXLEY ON A BOOK OF BURNING MATCHES:
COLLECTING INSTALLATION ART DOCUMENTS

LISA LE FEUVRE ON MUSEO DI CASTELVECCHIO BY CARLO SCARPA

HANS ULRICH OBRIST ON GATES BY PIERRE HUYGHE

JÚLIA REBOUÇAS ON PANO DE FUNDO BY SARA RAMO

LAURA HERMAN ON GUIDE RAILS BY RITA MCBRIDE

MARIO GARCÍA TORRES ON MICHAEL ASHER

SIMON STARLING ON KUNSTHALLE BERN BY MICHAEL ASHER

ROXANA MARCOCI ON BURTON ON BRANCUSI

SAM ANDERSON ON & FAINTLY HEARD (AS IT SINKS, SLOWLY):
WITH THE TENDERNESS OF MAGGOTS BY STUDIO FOR PROPOSITIONAL CINEMA

FABIAN SCHÖNEICH ON TEAXTHS AND ANGERUAGE BY MICHAEL DEAN

KEVIN REINHARDT ON MODEL FOR ‘SCULPTURE’ BY MARGARET HONDA

JENS HOFFMANN ON LES IMMATERIAUX

THEODOR RINGBORG ON SAYDNAYA (THE MISSING 19DB) BY LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN

MICHAEL NED HOLTE ON TRINKET BY POPE.L

KIM WEST ON THE NEW LANDSCAPE BY GYÖRGY KEPES

LIAM GILLICK ON MAN, MACHINE AND MOTION BY RICHARD HAMILTON

MASSIMILIANO GIONI ON MUTTER UND SOHN BY ILYA KABAKOV

MONIKA SZEWCZYK ON INTRÉPIDA FEATURING ELISABETH WILD FANTASÍAS 2 BY VIVIAN SUTER

BARBARA BLOOM ON HANS DIETER SCHAAL AND 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

GABRIEL SIERRA ON KATSURA IMPERIAL VILLA BY ISHIMOTO YASUHIRO

SABRINA TARASOFF ON ON FALSE TEARS AND OUTSOURCING BY CALLY SPOONER

CHRISTINA MACKIE ON LES LEVINE: BIO-TECH REHEARSALS, 1965–1975

BARBARA CASAVECCHIA ON LILY VAN DER STOKKER AND GUEST

FRANCESCO GARUTTI ON VON HIER AUS—ZWEI MONATE NEUE DEUTSCHE KUNST

MORGAN FISHER ON THE APOTHEOSIS OF SAINT IGNATIUS BY ANDREA POZZO

WILLEM DE ROOIJ ON SECRET POWER BY SIMON DENNY

DREW SAWYER ON AEROSPACE FOLKTALES BY ALLAN SEKULA

NATALIE MUSTEATA ON DEMOCRACY BY GROUP MATERIAL

ALESSANDRO BAVA ON CONTEMPORANEA

BRUCE ALTSHULER ON THE TIMES SQUARE SHOW

KERSTIN BRÄTSCH AND DAVIDE STUCCHI ON PIER MIRROR BY LILLY REICH

VALENTINA EHNIMB, NIELS OLSEN AND FREDI FISCHLI ON UNTITLED (IN RED) BY HEIMO ZOBERNIG

BORIS GROYS ON VANITAS BY BARBAD GOLSHIRI

INGA LĀCE ON LIGHTHOUSE BY VALDIS CELMS, MĀRIS ĀRGALIS AND ANDA ĀRGALE

LAUREN CORNELL ON CLUB INTERNET

THOMAS DEMAND ON AUSTRIENNALE BY HANS HOLLEIN

THEA DJORDJADZE ON THE SIMON JANASHIA STATE MUSEUM OF GEORGIA

BOJAN ŠARČEVIČ ON THE MUSEUM OF JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY

CÉLINE CONDORELLI ON EXTENDED FIELD OF VISION BY HERBERT BAYER

PAVEL PYŚ ON GLISSEMENT BY DAVID DIAO