Super – I keep dancing on my own

Glenn Walls. I keep dancing on my own. Wood, mirror perspex & paint. 2020

Glenn Walls. I keep dancing on my own + mirror cube. Wood, mirror perspex, paint, mirror tiles and chain. 2020
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Super Mobile (Superstudio: The Continuous Monument 1969)

Glenn Walls. Super Mobile 1 (After Superstudio, The Continuous Monument, 1969). Mirror perspex & skate wheels. 2020

Glenn Walls. Super Mobile 2 (After Superstudio, The Continuous Monument, 1969). Mirror perspex & skate wheels. 2020

Glenn Walls. Super Mobile 3 (After Superstudio, The Continuous Monument, 1969). Mirror perspex & skate wheels. 2020

Glenn Walls. Super Mobile 4 (After Superstudio, The Continuous Monument, 1969). Mirror perspex & skate wheels. 2020

Glenn Walls. Super Mobile 5 (After Superstudio, The Continuous Monument, 1969). Mirror perspex & skate wheels. 2020

Glenn Walls. Super Mobile construction (After Superstudio, The Continuous Monument, 1969). Mirror perspex & skate wheels. 2020
Super Crushed /

Glenn Walls. Super crushed. (Based on 60s Italian architecture group Superstudio, A Continuous Monument 1969).
Mirror Perspex, Silicone and clothing. Dimension variable. 2020
We don’t embroider cushions here

Glenn Walls. We don’t embroider cushions here. Bauhaus Carpet. Dimensions variable. 2020.
Glenn Walls. All power to you. (Based on Eileen Gray, Rivoli Table, 1928). Steel and wood. Dimensions variable. 2020. Contains Le Corbusier mural that he painted on Gray’s E1027 house between 1938 – 39.
Eileen Gray Vs Le Corbusier
E1027 was the first architectural work of the designer Eileen Gray, completed in 1929 when she was 51 years old. Gray talked of creating “a dwelling as a living organism” serving “the atmosphere required by inner life”. “The poverty of modern architecture,” she said, “stems from the atrophy of sensuality.” She criticised it for its obsession with hygiene: “Hygiene to bore you to death!”

E1027, which was built for Gray and her lover, Jean Badovici, grows from furniture into a building. She created a number of pieces of loose and built-in furniture for the house and installed others that she had previously designed, always with close attention to their interaction with the senses and the human body. She created a tea trolley with a cork surface, to reduce the rattling of cups, another trolley for taking a gramophone outside, and the E1027 table, whose height can be adjusted to suit different situations
Long after Eileen Gray left the villa in 1932, Le Corbusier spent a few days there in 1937, 1938 and 1939. In April 1938, encouraged by Jean Badovici, he painted two murals in the villa and returned the following year to paint another five. He said, “I am dying to dirty the walls: ten compositions are ready, enough to daub the whole lot”. According to her biographers, Eileen Gray didn’t think much of these paintings. In 1949 Badovici threatened to remove them. Several paintings that had been damaged during the war were restored by Le Corbusier himself in 1949 and again in 1963. Three of them, however, have disappeared. Those that have been preserved have since been restored or are under restoration.
Reference: https://capmoderne.com/en/lieu/la-villa-e-1027/ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/02/eileen-gray-e1027-villa-cote-dazur-reopens-lost-legend-le-corbusier


Left: Eileen Gray. Rivoli table, 1928.
Right: Glenn Walls. Perfect companion. (Based on Eileen Gray, Rivoli Table, 1928). Steel and wood. Dimensions variable. 2020. Contains Le Corbusier mural that he painted on Gray’s E1027 house between 1938 – 39.

Glenn Walls. Perfect sinners. (Based on Eileen Gray, Rivoli Table, 1928). Steel and wood. 2020.
Glenn Walls. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any – Alice Walker. Perspex on wood (book cover). 29 x 42 cms. 2020.
Glenn Walls. E 1027 Vandal. (Based on Eileen Gray E 1027 house, 1926). Video (endless loop). 2020.

Glenn Walls. Perfect lovers. (Based on Eileen Gray, Rivoli Table, 1928). Steel and wood. Dimensions variable. 2020.
Why Bother
Why Bother. (Woman’s Nike Sky Dunk Hi Essential). Jelutong wood, mirror perspex, yellow paint. 2017
Retrospective
Dual Meaning of Things, 2009. Exhibited at Westspace Sept 2009. Part of the Superlost series.
Prototype for Sophisticated Living No 1. Mirror tiles, wood, skateboard woods. 65 x 65 x 45 (approx.).
Prototype for Sophisticated Living No 1. Mirror tiles, wood, skateboard woods. 65 x 65 x 45 (approx.)
Superwheels. Mirror tiles, wood, skater wheels.
Super Suspended 2. Mirrored tiles, skate wheels, various materials. 2016
Based on the Continuous Monument by Superstudio. Background taken from Cite de I’Architecture et du Patrimoine.
Supershoe 2. (Woman’s Nike Sky Dunk Hi Essential). Jelutong wood, Mirror tiles. 2017
Installation view. Exhibition Carlton Hotel & Studios.
The Death of Architecture (Superstudio: The Continuous Monument). Metal Staples, wood, skater wheels. 2016
Prototype for Sophisticated Living No 3. Adidas soccer ball, wood, fake fur
Supershoes. Mirror tiles, wood. Nike Shoes. Begun 2008. Completed 2017
Less is More. Mirror perspex on wood. 2017
The Death of Architecture (Part 4)
The Death of Architecture (Part 4) . Based on Superstudio, The Continuous Monument. Mirrors, mirrored perspex on wood, skater wheels
The Death of Architecture (Part 4) . Based on Superstudio, The Continuous Monument. Mirrors, mirrored perspex on wood, skater wheels
The Death of Architecture (Part 4) . Based on Superstudio, The Continuous Monument. Mirrors, mirrored perspex on wood, skater wheels

The Death of Architecture (Part 4) Mirrored perspex on wood.

The Death of Architecture (Part 4) Mirrored perspex on wood.
The Death of Architecture (Part 3)
The Death of Architecture (Part 3). Mirror perspex, Jelutong wood and wool rug
The Death of Architecture (Part 3). Mirror perspex, Jelutong and wool rug

The Death of Architecture (Part 3). Development work. Jelutong

The Death of Architecture (Part 3). Development work. Jelutong

The Death of Architecture (Part 3). Development work. Jelutong
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