Courtesy Dan Graham & Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris / New York
Curves for E.S. is a two-way mirror pavilion, which mimics the condition of architecture in the city. It simultaneously evoke the historical precedent of garden pavilion forms from the Renaissance and rococo moments in Western garden art to the Chinese garden pavilions, which used circular open portals and windows. Visitors have to experience both sides of this architecture through the variation of its reflective quality. E. S. are the initials of Eeno Sarinen, a Finnish American modernist architect renowned for his use of arching structural curves.