Marquise

For her contribution to the 2006 São Paulo Biennial Dominique GonzalezFoerster used the work of Oscar Niemeyer as a starting point for an exploration of the relationship between the exhibition space and the urban context through an intervention in which she reproduces and multiplies existing columns reconfiguring the reading of the rhythm and proportions of modern architecture The Marquise in Sao Paulos Parque Ibirapuera an enormous concrete canopy designed by Niemeyer in 1954 is therefore the subject and setting of this film in which the artist reveals her interest in tropical modernism and develops certain recurrent themes in her work such as ideas of shelter playground or potential space MNAC