Xavier Veilhan

an installation at the Sheats-Goldstein residence, designed by John Lautner  text by JEFF RIAN   French artist Xavier Veilhan’s Architectones project — a distant homage to Russian Suprematist Kazimir Malevich’s 3D architectural studies — began in Los Angeles with his intervention at Richard Neutra’s VDL House in Silver Lake and then Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House No. 21. For his latest, Vielhan made four works at John Lautner’s residence, Sheats-Goldstein, owned by James Goldstein. Rays recalls Vielhan’s recent mobiles, with white cords strung from the tilted roof of the pool to the water’s edge, enhancing the reflecting water and Lautner’s geometric roof construction. Pyramids is a small wood sculpture that counterpoints the triangular patterns in the roof. The Architect, the Owner and the Dog is a miniature figurative work in bronze, while Lautner is a life-size statue of the architect in green aluminum. The tall figure of the architect overhangs…