A Year in Review
END OF 2021!
Happy Holidays, everyone! We’re excited to highlight some of MPC Studio’s achievements from 2021, ranging from new installations to media coverage. The publication of Mário Pires Cordeiro’s realized and proposed spatial works is now live on our website. His first U.S. based site-specific installation has also gone virtual—go on a 3D tour, or watch its online press debut.
New Installation
SF No 1, All Aboard. The completed installation at the Check-In Wine Lounge utilizes diagonals to connect itself visually to the space as well as express energy and movement.
SF No. 1, All Aboard
We are thrilled to announce SF No 1, All Aboard, a permanent installation at the Check-In Wine Lounge in San Francisco’s Balboa Park. This project is a fundamental collaboration between wall and work; the materials and colors contained within each custom frame are externalized unto the space itself, reaching out and connecting both to one another and to the environment. Keep an eye on Mário’s instagram for updates on the grand opening!
Location: Check-In Wine Lounge, 201 Ocean Ave, San Francisco, CA 94112. Wednesday - Sunday: 5 - 11pm
Introducing Something New
Capp Street Mural, 2021. This is a rendering of MPC Studio’s proposed use of neighborhood-specific colors to relate the private space of the home to the street.
Interventions
We are excited to unveil our latest addition to our website, Interventions. This section will showcase site-specific installations and spatial interventions. MPC Studio hopes to continue fostering a spirit of collaboration with fellow artists, designers and architects in the new year.
Media Coverage
MPC Studio Featured on News Up Now
Click the link to see Mário’s site specific installation, Church Configured, in its natural habitat. Recently featured by News up Now, this installation explores temporality, art, and architecture through the lens of commercial design trends.
A Conversation with Alexandra Ray
Mário Pires Cordeiro and Alexandra Ray, 2021, San Francisco, CA.
Mário was joined by San Francisco art advisor Alexandra Ray last month for a conversation about a central motif in his work. During their talk, he and Alexandra examined the relationship between color and MPC Studio’s practice. Color trends inform the visual and cultural world around us—check out Talk About Color, Alexandra Ray interviews Mário Pires Cordeiro to learn more and hear these two discuss how Mário channels these trends into a multidisciplinary breadth of work.
Listings Project: Where We Work
Our studio space was recently featured on Listings Project’s Where We Work online series. In this artist spotlight, Mário describes the central role that a large, permanent work table plays in both his studio and artistic process. He explains that this studio fixture not only invites collaboration, but also pays homage to the significance of the kitchen table in the Mediterranean culture he grew up immersed in.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
Reflections/Materiality On View, Online
If you missed our latest gallery show, fear not! Reflections/Materiality continues, now online. Take a virtual tour of the group exhibition at the Minnesota Street Project here. Mário’s site-specific installation in this group exhibition explores how our notion of passing time is inherently connected to the art and architecture that surrounds us.