Based on the project My House is a Le Corbusier, Cristian Chironi inhabits paradigms of modernist architecture around the world, restoring them to their original function as dwelling spaces, and finding within this extraordinary space of contemporary art, a way of resolving his concrete problem of not having a home to call his own. Chironi has disembarked at the Casa Victoria Ocampo to receive the public on a weekly basis as he delves into the anecdotes and stories of the personalities who gave life to the first rationalist-style house in Buenos Aires. The disparaging description of the house, according to its own architect Alejandro Bustillo, as a “scale model with giraffes,” is the point of departure chosen by Chironi for his own contribution. Creating a dialogue between collage, videos and installation, he offers up an eccentric portrait of the city’s urban landscape.
