On View Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 54

MetaModern

basic premises of modernism, questioning its call for
clarity, honesty, and permanence. In film, Dorit Margreiter and Josiah McElheny
demonstrate how modern
design has become an eloquent storyteller, rather
than a formal enterprise
eschewing anecdotal content. James Welling and
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
shift contexts and orienta-

tions—formal and conceptual. Jill Magid introduces
questions around reproduction, and Clarissa Tossin,
in elegiac video, presents

the futility of modernism’s
promises.
Often ironic and witty,
the works in this exhibition
offer a thoughtful critique

Edgar Orlaineta, Narcissus, 2002; Chairs (Eames LCW for Herman Miller, reproduction), steel cable, 24 x 58 x 20”, © Edgar Orlaineta.