Mindset Los Angeles – Frank Gehry and the Cool School

A comprehensive exhibition exploring Frank Gehry's early artistic influences from Los Angeles's 'Cool School' art scene and their revolutionary impact on his approach to architecture. About Architect Frank Gehry's thinking and work are closely linked to the influence of Los Angeles and its art scene. This comprehensive exhibition explores Gehry's early artistic influences, which led to his revolutionary approach to rethinking architecture. The free-spirited environment surrounding the "Cool School" group, which established itself in Los Angeles from the late 1950s onward, was a melting pot of artistic (material) experiments, shaped by Beat literature. In this vibrant network on the California coast, an inspiring cross-disciplinary dialogue between art and architecture developed. The exhibition at Marta Herford, a unique architectural sculpture by Frank Gehry, brings together these impulses and opens up connections to iconic works of American postwar art as well as subsequent generations from this context. Additional content and further information on the exhibited works and artists are available in the accompanying exhibition app: https://app.interkit.marta-herford.de/app/t8vBWctGdzteafL2q/ A catalog in German and English, edited by Marta Herford, will be published to accompany the exhibition. Spanning 192 pages, the publication brings together essays by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Sylvia Lavin, and Ann Kristin Kreisel, as well as two interviews: one with Larry Bell by Marcus Herse and another with Wilhelm Schürmann by Kathleen Rahn. It includes a foreword by the director of Marta Herford, more than 200 illustrations, historical documents, and original quotations by Frank Gehry. The hardcover volume (ISBN 978-3-7533-1042-8) will be published in late July by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König. It will be priced at €37 in the Marta shop during the exhibition and €42 thereafter. Artists John Altoon, Carl Andre, John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Wallace Berman, John Chamberlain, Judy Chicago, Meg Cranston / John Baldessari, Ronald Davis, Frank Gehry, David Hockney, Robert Irwin, Donald Judd, Craig Kauffman, Corita Kent, Edward Kienholz, Ed Moses, Claes Oldenburg / Coosje van Bruggen, Ken Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Deborah Remington, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Pae White Read more Toggle Architecture