‘Simon Starling: Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA (House for a Songbird)’ at Bass Museum of Art:
“If you walk into the Bass Museum of Art and think youre seeing things — treehouses on the ground floor! — relax and enjoy. Theyre part of the exhibition Simon Starling: Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA (House for a Songbird), which features a large-scale installation and two photographs by conceptual British artist Starling, who has pinned to the ceiling two scale models of prefabricated single-family houses propped on tree branches. The tree houses are Starlings interpretation of homes outside San Juan, Puerto Rico, built in the 1960s as part of a controversial development financed by the Rockefeller Foundation. With his artwork, Starling reflects on the complexity of realizing utopian aspirations in the modern world.”