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GARAGE EXCHANGE VIENNA – LOS ANGELES DOUBLE CROSSINGS

Hans Schabus and The Center for Land Use Interpretation Find Common Interest in MAK Center Exhibition

November 16, 2012 – March 2, 2013 Opening Reception: November 15, 7-9 PM

Top: © CLUI Photo Archive Bottom: Headwater/Arroyo Calabasas. Bell Creek © Hans Schabus

(West Hollywood, October 24, 2012) In its second outing, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents Garage Exchange Vienna-Los Angeles. Exhibited at the Garage Top at the Mackey Apartments, home to the MAK Center Artists and Architects-in-Residence program, Double Crossings features former resident Hans Schabus in collaboration with The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI). The exhibition opens with a free public reception on Thursday, November 15, from 7-9 PM. It will remain on view every Friday and Saturday, 11 AM-6 PM, from November 16, 2012 through March 2, 2013.

Just as the MAK Center residencies promote cultural exchange by inviting early career practitioners to work and study in Los Angeles, Garage Exchange provides former residents

the opportunity to exhibit with a Los Angeles-based colleague. During his 2005 residency, Austrian artist Hans Schabus developed Los Angeles River Crossings, a project in which he walked the entire 52-mile length of the river, mapping and documenting its more than 100 bridges. In a parallel venture, CLUI created Salt Flat Crossings, which documents Interstate 80 in northwestern Utah and the sites where it is "crossed" by drainage culverts.

Schabus's journey is recorded on a zigzag series of Thomas Guide road maps that trace the curving path of the L.A. River. These are liberally color-coded and appended with post-it notes citing the different types of crossing structures--chiefly bridges and pipelines--their functions, and settings within the urban landscape. He also presents video documentation and displays an artist's book he has recently created about the project. The CLUI project mounts photographs on a topographic landscape map, revealing a 38-mile man-made structure with neither a curve nor an exit. The raised gravel highway is occasionally crossed by salt- and mud-caked culverts, which facilitate drainage of the salt-flats landscape. CLUI will also display video projections.

Salt Flat Crossings is an obverse analog of Hans Schabus's Los Angeles River Crossings. The highway in the salt flats is a linear form shaped by the human need for conveyance, crossed by structures beneath it that allow for "natural" flow, through tunnels. The Los Angeles River is a "natural" linear form, spanned by human needs of conveyance that travel above it, on bridges. Together these works comment on different qualities of moving through the environment, different modes of perception, and our relationship to what was once known as the "natural world," but is now something else entirely.

This exhibition is made possible by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.

The Mid-City, R.M. Schindler-designed Mackey Apartments (1939) are home to the MAK Center residency program. In 2010, the MAK Center renovated the rear garages and above them built a dynamic multi-use space, the Garage Top, designed by Space International. Double Crossings will be on view at the Garage Top every Friday and Saturday, 11 AM-6 PM, from November 16, 2012 through March 2, 2013. There is no charge for admission.

The Mackey Apartments and Mackey Garage Top are located at 1137 South Cochran Avenue, Los Angeles 90019.

------The MAK Center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House is principally located at 835 N. Kings Road in West Hollywood. Public hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 AM-6 PM. Regular admission is $7/$17 with the guidebook, Schindler By MAK; students and seniors, $6/$16 with book; free for Friends of the MAK Center and on Fridays, 4-6 PM. Parking is available at the public structure at the northeast corner of Kings Road and Santa Monica Boulevard.

For further information, the public may contact MAKCenter.org or call (323) 651-1510.

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