Oscar Tuazon goes off-grid in Basel

“What does a house do? Can a house be a sculpture? Can you live inside an artwork?” These are just some of the questions that the Los Angeles-based artist Oscar Tuazon is posing with the cavernous, honeycomb-shaped wooden structure he has erected on the Messeplatz in Basel. Zome Alloy (2016) is a pared-down version of Steve Baer’s Zome House (1972) outside Corrales in New Mexico, where the beatnik solar engineer and architect still lives with his wife, Holly.
 
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