Escher GuneWardena Architecture cabinet drawings for "Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It", 2011

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Summary

Title:
Escher GuneWardena Architecture cabinet drawings for Stephen Prina, As He Remembered It
Dates:
2011
Creators:
Escher GuneWardena Architecture., Prina, Stephen, 1954-, and Schindler, R. M., (Rudolph M. ), 1887-1953
Extent:
42.0 Items (2 flat file folders)
Language:
Preferred citation:

Escher GuneWardena Architecture cabinet drawings for "Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It"; Architecture and Design Collection, Art Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara

Background

Scope and content:

Escher GuneWardena Architecture (Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena) used the drawings in the Rudolph M. Schindler papers at UCSB to create cabinet drawings of the furniture made for the exhibit "Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It," which opened at Secession, in Vienna, in 2011, and was installed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2013.

Stephen Prina's art work appropriated built-in furniture designs that R. M. Schindler created for the Rose Harris house (1942) and the H. Hiler house (1941), houses that no longer existed at the time of Prina's work.

Prina had the furniture pieces reconstructed and then "used them as a 'canvas' for his monochrome painting." He painted all of the furniture pink. The Secession exhibition catalog posed the question that Prina, known for his use of appropriation in his practice, began with: "If you remove a piece of furniture designed for a specific context from this context and transfer it to a new one, how much of its original context does it take with it?"

[From Stephen Prina, As He Remembered It (Vienna: Seccession, 2011), 5)

Biographical / historical:

Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena are architects and partners in Escher-GunWardena Architecture, in Los Angeles. They have frequently collaborated with artists and designed exhibition installations.

Custodial history:

Gift of Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by ADC staff
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” Project.
Date Prepared:
11/8/2013
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2016-05-23T08:27-0700

Access and use

Preferred citation:

Escher GuneWardena Architecture cabinet drawings for "Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It"; Architecture and Design Collection, Art Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara

Location of this collection:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7130, US
Contact:
(805) 893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
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