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Location: Los Angeles, CA
Year: 2016
Status: Complete
The Kid Gets Out of the Picture is a contemporary update on the aesthetic principles of early 19th century English landscape architecture. By the early-nineteenth century, practitioners of the English picturesque had invented a catalog of objects (follys, ha-has, viewpoints) that worked to produce the pictorial effects of landscape painting within real space. Lumps, clumps, and masses made it possible, in a sense, to occupy the picture.
The Kid Gets Out of the Picture is a three-month long exhibition that returns to the catalog of nouns developed by the picturesque to ask how these tactics can be deployed in reverse, extracting the qualities of images and literalizing them in the real world.
Installation at Materials & Applications in collaboration with First Office, Hirsuta, and Laurel Broughton / Andrew Kovacs. The project was made possible in part by the generous support of the Graham Foundation.
Team: Andrew Holder, Claus Benjamin Freyinger, Israel Ceja, Anthony Chu, Chuck Diep, Ciro Dimson, Tidus Dimson, Kenji Hattori, Sam Hoch, Alexander Porter, David Saldin, Tim Smith, Phillip Soderlind, Morgan Starkey, Darryl Weimer, Erin Wright, Trenman Yau
Photos: Nathaniel Riley
