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"Art is Business"

Dear Friends, Nick Bastis (b. 1985) has had recent solo and duo exhibitions at Etablissement d’en Face (Brussels), Madre Museum (Naples), JOAN (Los Angeles), Ermes-Ermes (Rome), Galerie Catherine Bastide (Brussels), and Regards (Chicago). Group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), Contemporary Art Center (Vilnius), Bureau des Réalités (Brussels), Akwa Ibom (Athens), Simone Subal (New York), and others. Writing on Bastis’ work has appeared in Artforum, Frieze, and e-flux/Art-Agenda

Please join me, Beidler Elementary School, and many others for the unveiling of a new Frank Gehry building (replica).

It will take place on October 9 at 4:00 PM. 3100 West Washington Blvd, Chicago. - Kedzie Green Line stop.

Gehry Residence, USA, 1978

For Gehry's radical extension to his own home in Santa Monica, California, he wrapped his Dutch-style suburban house in a series of interlocking structures.

Featured in the seminal Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at MoMA, the house made Gehry's name. It was constructed largely from affordable materials such as corrugated steel.

"I was interested in simple materials – you didn't have to get fancy materials," Gehry explained in a 2021 interview with PIN-UP magazine.

"I worked with corrugated metal, which I liked galvanized," he added. "I didn't like the way it was typically used, but I liked the aesthetic. And I loved wood, of course, from the Japanese-influenced stuff to wood framing.