A Casa. 1975. Courtesy Architectural Association

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Apres L’amour. 1975. Courtesy Architectural Association

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Self Immolation. 1975. Courtesy Architectural Association

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Freud Unlimited. 1975. Courtesy Architectural Association

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Flagrant Delit. 1975. Courtesy Architectural Association

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MADELON VRIESENDORP is an artist/ designer/ craftswoman /compulsive collector/ one of the founding member of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in 1975 and additionally the wife of REM KOOLHAAS (ndlr: VRIESENDORP’s painting Flagrant Délit—in which the Chrysler and Empire State buildings are caught red-handed, in post-coital embrace, by the Rockefeller Centre features in KOOLHAAS’ book “Delirious New York“).

If you like her work, good news: her work can be seen alongside that of her daughter Charlie Koolhaas at the current exhibition “Room for Thought” on show at Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, until 27 November 2010.

And below, two goodies: one is the trailer for the exhibition she had last year in Basel and the second is a picture of a – small – part of her object archive:

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Trailer / The World of Madelon Vriesendorp

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Object Archive. The City

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“The World of Madelon Vriesendorp: Paintings/Postcards/Objects/Games” is a book that brings together the Dutch artist’s wildly diverse practices from the past thirty-five years, including painting, drawing, collecting, recycling, sculpture and psychological game-devising as well as the serious business of collecting what Walter Benjamin once called “the trash of history”.

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