The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Untitled (Cleveland Museum of Art, #1)

2018

Luisa Lambri

(Italian, b. 1969)

Italy, 21st century

Pigment print

Framed: 40 x 45 cm (15 3/4 x 17 11/16 in.)

Gift of the Artist 2018.1045

© 2017 Luisa Lambri

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

This work explores usually unnoticed details of the museum’s north wing, which was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1971.

Description

In a grouping of twelve photographs, Lambri sensitizes us to the complexity and richness of texture and tactility designed into the museum’s north wing. Six of the images are close-ups of its iconic alternating light and dark gray stripes; the other six are close-ups of the joins of solid, monochromatic, medium gray blocks of stone.

Provenance
2018
Luisa Lambri (the artist), commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
December 3, 2018
the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
"Artists: Luisa Lambri,” FRONT International frontart.org
Matthew Gengler, “Building Images,” Cleveland Art, July/August 2018 www.clevelandart.org
Leslie Cade, “Luisa Lambri, A Meditation on the Breuer Building: Interpreting the Built Environment through Archival Images,” CMA Thinker: A Blog, July 16, 2018 www.clevelandart.org
Alexander Dumbadze, “Critical Eye: Town and Country,” Art in America Magazine, October 1, 2018 www.artinamericamagazine.com
Alex Greenberger, “City Slickers: Cleveland’s First Front International Triennial Explores American Metropolises—Without a Local Perspective,” ArtNews, August 8, 2018 www.artnews.com
Michelle Grabner, ed. FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art: An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, Volume 1, Cleveland, OH: FRONT Exhibition Company, 2018 p. 33, 55, 150-151
Kris Roberts, “Luisa Lambri,” in Michelle Grabner, ed. FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art: An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, Volume 2, Cleveland, OH: FRONT Exhibition Company, 2018 p. 130-131, 289
Exhibition history

Marlon de Azambuja: Brutalismo-Cleveland and Luisa Lambri (FRONT International: An American City). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 3-December 30, 2018).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.1045