EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN (ENGLISH IF REQUIRED)

The exhibition contrasts two houses that could not be more different. In his paintings, Jürgen Bauer reduces the idea of the house to a universal symbol: the pictogram of the house with a pitched roof, a square as the basic shape with a triangle above as the roof, formed from the same geometric figures over and over again.

Jürgen Bauer’s large-format paintings of houses, executed in acrylic on canvas, are contrasted with a series of small-format drawings of the Endless House of 1959 from Friedrich Kiesler’s estate.

The Endless House is a true icon of 20th century visionary architecture and an early reference point for biomorphic architecture. Endless, not infinite, meant for Kiesler that “all ends meet” in his house, with the walls, ceilings and floors merging into one another and creating the illusion of an endlessly flowing spatial continuum.

The title of the exhibition ‘TWO HOUSES’ is an ironic allusion to a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in which the sculptor-architect Frederick Kiesler was compared to the engineer-architect Richard Buckminster Fuller.