Glimpse Paul Pfeiffer’s First U.S. Retrospective
2024 Best of Year Winner for Exhibition
Sports, celebrity, and roaring crowds hold focus for Paul Pfeiffer, who works in video, photography, and sculpture. Tapped to conceive the artist’s first U.S. retrospective, “Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom” at the MOCA Geffen in Los Angeles, New York studio Büro Koray Duman divided the 22,000-square-foot museum space into a series of rooms, starting with a trio of small-scale galleries for early works and opening to a cavernous area articulated with plywood-enclosed structures reminiscent of Hollywood sound stages. The pièce de resistance is Vitruvian Figure, inspired by the 2000 Sydney Olympics stadium. Whereas its real-life counterpart accommodated 100,000 spectators, the 10-foot-high facsimile, made of cast resin, aluminum, and acrylic, “seats” 1 million and was designed to be viewed from above, via a platform accessed by a wood-frame ADA accessibility ramp that served as one of the work’s defining features.
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PROJECT TEAM: KORAY DUMAN; CAITLIN DIPPO; HYUNJOO PARK; SOEUN PARK.
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