The artist duo Lake Verea creates portraits of single-family houses designed by renowned modernist architects. They approach these buildings like paparazzi – unannounced and spontaneous – with the aim of capturing them in an unembellished, private state. The exhibition »Paparazza Moderna« presents the duo’s evocative photography - taken between 2011 and 2018 - of buildings by Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Rudolph M. Schindler, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. Divided into three chapters, including photography, video and research documentation. Each of the photographic compositions, which Lake Verea refer to as »architectural portraits«, consists of two to ten photographs and offer an intimate take on the myths that surround the intertwined relationships between some of the great architects of the twentieth century. The artists work with two pairs of identical analogue cameras, exchanging these during the shoot in order to blur questions of authorship and to highlight their combined identity.

Chapter Two:

Lovell Newport Beach House

RM Schindler, 1926