MAK Center Artists in Residence Barbara Wolff, Katharina Stoever and Marc J. Cohen of Peles Empire Present:
“SOMETHING TO DO WITH A CASTLE”
May 18 – June 7, 2007
Contact for an appointment: 323-935-2278 or pelesempire@gmail.com
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 17, 7-10 pm
Mackey Apartments
1137-2 South Cochran Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90019
Peles Empire is a London-based collaborative founded in 2005 that explores historical architectural styles within contemporary social surroundings. Named after a Romanian castle designed by the Viennese architect Wilhelm Doderer in 1883, Peles Empire reproduces rooms of this castle within their own domestic surroundings. The project in Los Angeles is the fourth room of the castle to be re-created. Using photocopies as wallpaper, they have layered a nineteenth century baroque interior onto the modernist architecture of RM Schindler. This re-creation will become a site for social gatherings, art exhibitions, and culinary experiments. The Peles in Los Angeles functions as a project space and gallery with forthcoming solo exhibitions by London and Frankfurt based artists Jack Newling, Lia Anna Hennig, Kerstin Cmelka, Karl Orton and Thomas Livesey.
