CHELSEA space

Charles Mason: Stump 2005, paper packing tape and bulldog clips

CHELSEA space is delighted to present FÖHN, an exhibition inspired by the story of one man's obsessive construction of a utopian building for his sister in the middle of a forest.

This building, called The Cone, is a project that eventually drives him to near madness and death! The story comes from the 1975 novel Correction by Thomas Bernhard and alludes 'obliquely to Wittgenstein's design and construction in Vienna of a house of uncompromising austerity and clarity of line for one of his sisters'

Guest curator, Rob Wilson, from the Royal Institute of British Architects, asked for copies of Bernhard's Correction to be sent to a number of architects and artists and invited them to respond to the text by contributing either existing work or by producing new sketches, maquettes or proposals

CHELSEA space will be loosely divided into a dark (forest) space and a light (mountain) space depending on the responses of the invited architects and artists

#Föhn: a warm, dry Alpine wind blown from the Sahara which leaves traces of red sand on the snow and is believed to cause 'Föhn Sickness' leading to misfortune, unhappiness, and suicide.

(¹George Steiner 1991 from the Preface to Correction )

CHELSEA space

Millbank, London SW1P 4JU

Opening Times: Tue - Fri

11am to 5.30 pm / Sat 10 am to 4 pm

Nearest Tube station:

Pimlico (follow signs to Tate Britain)

CHELSEA space is grateful for the support of the RIBA Trust. Copies of Bernhard's Correction were generously supplied to participating architects and artists by the publisher, Vintage

www.randomhouse.com/vintage