Curated by Douglas Fogle for the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences in Los Angeles, Leonor Antunes: discrepancies with E.S. (in company) engages with the modernist domestic spatial configurations of Richard Neutra's iconic home and studio. Responding to the unique architectural environment of Neutra's iconic Los Angeles home and workspace, Antunes has made a sculptural intervention into this mid-century modern icon with a new body of work inspired by the designs of the Austrian émigré architect Elizabeth Scheu Close (1912-2011), an MIT-trained architect who brought modernist design to Minneapolis and whose family was part of the same Viennese social circles as the Neutras.

discrepancies with E.S. (in company) will open at the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences on Friday, 5 September from 5-7 pm and will remain on view through 13 December 2025. A special performance by Franco-American composer and clarinetist Carol Robinson, titled Music for Changing Light, featuring her own music as well as OCCAM III by Éliane Radigue, will be presented on opening night at 6 pm. Please note that the Neutra VDL is open to the public on Saturdays from 11 am -3 pm and is located at 2300 Silver Lake Blvd in Los Angeles. For more information on reservations, tickets, and tours of the Neutra VDL, please visit their website at neutra-vdl.org.

Leonor Antunes was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1972, and currently lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal (2025); Fruitmarket, Scotland (2023); Serralves Foundation, Portugal (2022); MUDAM, Luxembourg (2020); MASP, São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil (2019); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2018); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2018); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (2016); CAPC Bordeaux, France (2015); New Museum, New York, NY (2015); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2013); and the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, (2011). Antunes represented the Portuguese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019 and has participated in the 58th and 57th Venice Biennale (2019 and 2017); the 12th Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2015); and the 8th Berlin Biennale (2014).

To say that Carol Robinson is a Franco-American composer and clarinetist is perhaps too restrictive to describe the eclecticism of her experience and passion. Whether performing repertoire or experimental forms, she appears in major venues and festivals the world over, working with musicians from a wide stylistic spectrum. Author of over one hundred works, recent compositions include commissions from the French Ministry of Culture, the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Radio France and Brucknerhaus Linz.  Beyond her own compositions, her discography includes award winning monographic recordings of music by Scelsi, Nono, Feldman, Berio, Radigue, Frey or Niblock, as well as classical music, jazz and alternative rock.

Douglas Fogle is an independent curator and writer based in Los Angeles with over thirty years of experience as a museum curator focusing on exhibitions and publications devoted to contemporary art, film, architecture, fashion, and design. Some of his most recent exhibitions include Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece (2025); Friends in a Field: Conversations with Raoul De Keyser at Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium, co-curated with Hanneke Skerath (2022-23); and the traveling exhibition Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History at UCCA Edge, Shanghai (2022), Jeu de Paume, Paris, (2023), Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2023), Museum of Fine Arts Houston (2024), and Taipei Museum of Fine Arts (2025); Fogle has held curatorial positions at a number of contemporary art institutions including Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. As a writer he has contributed essays to numerous magazines, exhibition catalogues and artist monographs and recently co-authored and co-published Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (idajoon/MACK, 2025).

Originally constructed in 1932 and 1939 and then rebuilt after a fire in 1965, Richard Neutra’s VDL Studio and Residences in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles is an icon of mid-century modern architecture. Originally built with a no-interest loan from Dutch philanthropist Dr. CH Van Der Leeuw, this radical glass house and architecture studio became an important center of modernist design. In 2017 the Neutra VDL House was named a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Today the house is under the stewardship of the College of Environmental Design (ENV) and Department of Architecture (CPP ARC) at Cal Poly Pomona and is led by its resident director Professor Sarah Lorenzen who also oversees its cultural and educational programming. The primary mission of the College with respect to VDL is: to use the house as an educational resource for ENV students and faculty, to preserve and maintain the property, to make the house accessible to visitors through tours given by Cal Poly Pomona architecture students, and to host arts and culture programs that will strengthen the facility's mission as a community resource.

This project has been made possible by the generous support of Chara Schreyer. Additional support has been provided by Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles, and kurimanzutto, Mexico City/New York.

Image: Photograph of Elizabeth Close in Fraser Hall. Credit: Courtesy of University of Minnesota Archives, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.