Purple Magazine
— F/W 2013 issue 20
Xavier Veilhan
an installation at the Sheats-Goldstein residence, designed by John Lautner
text by JEFF RIAN
French artist Xavier Veilhan’s Architectones project — a distant homage to Russian Suprematist Kazimir Malevich’s 3D architectural studies — began in Los Angeles with his intervention at Richard Neutra’s VDL House in Silver Lake and then Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House No. 21. For his latest, Vielhan made four works at John Lautner’s residence, Sheats-Goldstein, owned by James Goldstein. Rays recalls Vielhan’s recent mobiles, with white cords strung from the tilted roof of the pool to the water’s edge, enhancing the reflecting water and Lautner’s geometric roof construction. Pyramids is a small wood sculpture that counterpoints the triangular patterns in the roof. The Architect, the Owner and the Dog is a miniature figurative work in bronze, while Lautner is a life-size statue of the architect in green aluminum. The tall figure of the architect overhangs the house: a statue representing John Lautner is installed on the roof. The statue can also be placed in the bedroom under the pool, looking outside. The motif of the triangle includes the form of a perspective with two diagonals leading to a vanishing point.
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Lautner, 2013. Exhibition views, Architectones. Sheats-Goldstein Residence, Los Angeles. Photos by Joshua White, courtesy of Galerie Perrotin. Copyright Veilhan / ADAGP
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Lautner, 2013. Exhibition views, Architectones. Sheats-Goldstein Residence, Los Angeles. Photos by Joshua White, courtesy of Galerie Perrotin. Copyright Veilhan / ADAGP
