© Luisa LAMBRI

Untitled (O Museum i)

ArtistLuisa LAMBRI
Year2000
Material/ Techniqueilfochrome print
Size/ DurationH110 × W155cm
Copyright Notice© Luisa LAMBRI
Year of acquisition/ donation2003(作品購入年月日:2003/03/31)
DescriptionBorn in Como, Italy in 1969. Lives and works in Milan.

Lambri takes photos and videos of the interiors of modern buildings designed by architects such as Giuseppe TERRAGNI, Le Corbusier, Mies VAN DER ROHE and SANAA, and more specifically, she is known for her works focusing on the details (mostly the openings such as windows and doors). While her style of cutting out static and neutral space mainly in white can be viewed as minimalism/typology, her works resemble portraits reflecting her personal moments or experiences rather than architectural photos, and you could sense her perspective on the function of architecture as a device to cut out scenery in particular.

These are photos of the Ogasawara Museum (Iida, Nagano, 1999) designed by SANAA who also planned 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. The Ogasawara Museum is a cultural facility to preserve and exhibit the Ogasawara family’s historical materials, and it is built adjoining the north side of the study of the family’s former house, which is designated as important cultural property. The building is clad in gently curved reinforced glass. In this work, the artist, looking out at the study and its surroundings from the inside of the museum supported by six pillars, and viewing the subject through the unique white vertical stripe patterns buried in the surface of the glass, she has ingeniously mixed four different layers: the curtain the glass wall marking the borderline in the space, the interior of the room reflected on it, and the traditional architecture and its surroundings seen further ahead. With such a composition, the artist gives us ideas as to the relationship between the two buildings, and at the same time, she refers to the distinctive style of this architect who tries to make the space of both the inside and the outside of architecture positively interact.

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