Stephen Prina
07 Apr - 04 Aug 2013
© Stephen Prina
As He Remember It, installation view, Secession Vienna, 2011
courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York. Photo © Wolfgang Thaler, Vienna, Austria.
As He Remember It, installation view, Secession Vienna, 2011
courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York. Photo © Wolfgang Thaler, Vienna, Austria.
STEPHEN PRINA
As He Remembered It
7 April – 4 August 2013
The origin of Los Angeles-based artist Stephen Prina’s installation As He Remembered It is a memory from the 1980s of walking down La Brea Avenue with fellow artist Christopher Williams. They saw a bright pink fitted unit by architect R. M. Schindler. The built-in desk had been taken out of its original context and displayed as a freestanding object. According to Prina, “it appeared to us as an amputated limb.”
Prina chose two houses built in Los Angeles during the early 1940s by R. M. Schindler and since demolished. Using surviving plans and photographs, he had copies made of the unit furniture, which Schindler designed to be arranged to follow the lines of the room. The resulting installation at LACMA consists of twenty-eight objects that Prina painted pink using Pantone Honeysuckle 2011 Color of the Year and restaged in a grid pattern.
As He Remembered It
7 April – 4 August 2013
The origin of Los Angeles-based artist Stephen Prina’s installation As He Remembered It is a memory from the 1980s of walking down La Brea Avenue with fellow artist Christopher Williams. They saw a bright pink fitted unit by architect R. M. Schindler. The built-in desk had been taken out of its original context and displayed as a freestanding object. According to Prina, “it appeared to us as an amputated limb.”
Prina chose two houses built in Los Angeles during the early 1940s by R. M. Schindler and since demolished. Using surviving plans and photographs, he had copies made of the unit furniture, which Schindler designed to be arranged to follow the lines of the room. The resulting installation at LACMA consists of twenty-eight objects that Prina painted pink using Pantone Honeysuckle 2011 Color of the Year and restaged in a grid pattern.