Support Houston’s independent bookstores and our faculty by joining Dr. Lida Oukaderova, Associate Professor of Art History, at Basket Books and Art in Montrose next Tuesday, May 9 at 6:00pm for a conversation with Swiss visual artist Marianne Mueller to celebrate her new publication Book of Complaints and Suggestions: Re-constructing Constructivist Interiors (Standpunkte, 2022).
Accompanied by local activists, Marianne Mueller and Gabrielle Schaad discover the (unprotected and iconic) architectural heritage of Constructivist buildings erected in Sverdlovsk between 1927 and 1933. Turned “inside-out,” they reveal their tattered interiors and pay tribute to an unresolved past that may soon be erased by real estate speculation. Konstantin Bugrov’s tongue-in-cheek captions add a delightful twist to the group’s Kafkaesque odyssey.
Edited and designed by Marianne Mueller with contributions by Gabrielle Schaad and Konstantin Bugrov.
Marianne Mueller is an artist harnessing memory friction within the corporal and architectural. Recent institutional solo exhibitions include Museum of Photography, Ekaterinburg; Centro de Artes Visuals, Coimbra and Kunstmuseum Bern. Her work forms part of many international public collections and she has been a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2007.
Standpunkte (Reto Geiser & Tilo Richter) publishes manifestos, critical investigations, and designs that represent current positions or comment on @standpunktebasel historical subjects from a contemporary perspective, and it engages critically with architectural culture on all scales from the built environment to speculative visions.
This event is organized by Reto Geiser (Associate Professor, Rice University School of Architecture). The book project was supported by Pro Helvetia and Volkart Stiftung.
Images: Basket Books and Art
