(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Except the buildings are not gone forever. Pereira’s LACMA design has not been viewed kindly by critics. Among the fragments that Cayetano Ferrer extracted from LACMA are the pieces that joined the building’s columns — evocative of midcentury design. For “Extraction,” Cayetano Ferrer sliced out pieces of the LACMA façade in ways that made what he removed as sculptural as what was left behind. In 2015, you created an installation for the Santa Barbara Art Museum titled “Interventions,” in which you paired pieces of ancient ruins with a patchwork of casino carpets.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 30, 2021 15:00 UTC