"Folly" Exhibition
Socrates Sculpture Park
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This residency and exhibition explores the intersections between architecture, design, and sculpture. A folly is commonly defined as a fanciful architectural form whose purpose is non-utilitarian, or so ornate and decorative as to have only minimal practical purpose. The folly is a perfect subject for architects to investigate materiality, spatial interaction, and concepts about our built environment.
Curtain, a project conceived by architects Jerome Haferd and K Brandt Knapp, was selected as the winning proposal from a juried competition. The project combines architectural structural framing with mutable plastic chain link partitions and enclosures. Folly is organized in collaboration with The Architectural League of New York.
Haferd and Knapp were selected from 115 submissions by a jury that included: Alyson Baker, former Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park (2000-11) and current Executive Director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Yolande Daniels, Studio SUMO; Richard Gluckman, Gluckman Mayner Architects; Christopher Leong, Leong Leong Architecture; and Leo Villareal, artist.
Folly presents an ideal and timely partnership between Socrates and The Architectural League, as demonstrated by the increasing number of architects taking an interest in the exhibition opportunities available at Socrates. The Park's waterfront site offers a rare and immediate connection to both the landscape and the public.
"Over the past decade there has been widespread interest among younger architects and designers in making - through experimentation with new fabrication technologies and materials and through the rediscovery of the pleasures of craft. The design of temporary installations and pavilions has proved a fertile ground for these explorations. Folly is an exciting opportunity to situate this line of architectural invention within a specifically sculptural context through the League's partnership with Socrates," said Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director of the Architectural League.
The program is being directed by Elissa Goldstone, Exhibition Program Manager, Socrates Sculpture Park; and Gregory Wessner, Special Projects Director, The Architectural League of New York.
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Schedule
from July 14, 2012 to October 21, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-07-14 from 14:00 to 18:00