Alternate Colour Schemes for Sewage Works, 2011
ink, wash, pencil and watercolour on paper, 31 x 41 cm

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Nile Foliage, Ornamental Designs For The Framing Of Doors, 2008

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Canary Wharf, 2007
ink on paper, 26.8 x 23 cm

Reconstruction of facade of charing cross station, 2006

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Grand Latrine in the French Manner, 2011
ink, wash on paper, 67 x 102 cm

Design for the Ornamentation of Middle Class Houses, 2011
ink and watercolour on paper, 4 parts

Large Building with a Courtyard, 2005
ink and gouache on paper

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First and Second Hangs of Pre-Columbian Antiquities at the Metroploitan Museum, 2009, ink and guache on paper

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First and Second Hangs of Pre-Columbian Antiquities at the Metroploitan Museum, 2009, ink and guache on paper

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Teatro Alessandro Scarlatti, 2011
wood, color, 350 x 300 x 300 cm
exhibition view at the Garden of Forking Paths, guest project on the Froh Ussicht estate, owned by the Blum family in Samstagern, Zurich (May-October 2011)

all images courtesy of the artist and their respectives galleries

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The works of PABLO BRONSTEIN address the relationship between architecture, behaviour and power. His drawings in pen and ink on paper, which combine a wide variety of stylistic approaches, ranging from Renaissance draftsmanship to Modern design and which often represent utopian buildings that convey a sense of the absurd, are what first brought the artist to attention. However, his installations and performances are also key elements of his oeuvre, and extend the artist’s exploration of architecture into the realm of space and action.

I am not an architect, and these drawings are not plans, concept sketches, or designs, but rather imitations of designs.(…) If my work aims at a confrontational subversion, it would be directed more toward the sections of the art world that push for a particular aesthetic despite claims to be interested in the concept. If I’m being a little thuggish about it, I could summarize encountering much hostility from people wanting their conceptual art to look like ‘conceptual art,’ or their political art to look like ‘political art’. – PABLO BRONSTEIN in conversation with TIMOTHY HULL