PHOTOGRAPHS
Lambri, Luisa
Italy / U.S. (1969 - )
Untitled (Palácio da Indústria, #3)
2003
Lambda print mounted to acrylic
32 5/8 x 27 1/2 in. (82.8x 69.8 cm) image size; 41 x 36 in. (104.1 x 91.4 cm) visible sheet size; 41 1/2 x 36 7/16 x 1 1/2 in. (105.4 x 92.5 x 3.8 cm) frame size
Gift of Burt and Jane Berman
FA 2008.195

While Luisa Lambri is known for her architectural photography, it is not her intention simply to document building interiors. Lambri takes a decidedly straightforward approach, photographing the architecture straight-on, yet creating images that are surprisingly poetic and abstract. In these two photographs she points her lens outwards, through windows, exploring the flow between indoors and out, architectural and natural. -- Label copy for Videowatercolors: Carel Balth Among His Contemporaries, October 15, 2011, to January 22, 2012.

Luisa Lambri has traveled the world photographing architectural interiors. She has investigated many iconic Modernist buildings, recording their physical properties and reflecting on the psychological and social effects of these spaces on their inhabitants. Imbued with quiet emotion and a deep understanding of architectural space, Lambri’s photographs are deadpan, poetic, and at times monochromatic to the point of being almost abstract.

Luisa Lambri was born in Como, Italy and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Lambri has participated in two Venice Biennales; in 1999, at the 48th Biennale, she was awarded the Golden Lion. She has been an artist-in-residence at institutions in the United States and internationally, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2008–2009; Colecção Teixeira de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro, 2003; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, 2002; and International Artists' Studio Programme in Sweden, Stockholm, 2000–2001. Her work is part of collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; and Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City. -- Guidebook copy for The Ghost of Architecture, July 13 to September 29, 2013.