Easter Egg Archeologies with the New Affiliates.
For cover me softly the New Affiliates present drawings revealing the material and social histories of three of Bruce Goff’s iconic houses: the Ford House (Aurora, IL, 1949-50), Shin’en Kan (Bartlesville, OK, 1956), and the Bavinger House (Norman, OK, 1955). They include references to industrial reuse and the quotidian products he transformed into architectural surfaces, and they reveal the networked and relational systems of invisible information that were deeply important to his practice. These are covers not just of buildings but of the instructions, means, and methods that produce them. The houses themselves may linger in the background like ghostly references or the circumstantial outcomes of an array of possible solutions—pink plastic and all.
A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, famed architect Bruce Goff’s bold, expressive designs represent some of the most daring architecture of the twentieth century. Theorist Charles Jencks called him “the Michelangelo of Kitsch. ” In this cover of David Hockney's film "A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China", New Affiliates will walk through their contribution to the exhibition. They will follow along stories, characters, and details of the large drawings to uncover secret material histories and connect to broader issues encountered in their work.
