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Title: Escher GuneWardena Architecture cabinet drawings for Stephen Prina, As He Remembered It
Identifier/Call Number: 0000339
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
42.0 Items
(2 flat file folders)
Date: 2011
creator:
Escher GuneWardena Architecture.
creator:
Prina, Stephen, 1954-
creator:
Schindler, R. M., (Rudolph M. ), 1887-1953
Escher GuneWardena Architecture cabinet drawings for "Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It"; Architecture and Design Collection,
Art Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
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.
Gift of Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena.
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)
Related Archival Materials note
R. M. Schindler papers, Archiecture and Design Collection, collection no. 100