Mousse 61
December 2017-January 2018
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