SAVANNAH, GA.- The exhibition ‘A Poem in the Form of Flowers’ takes place as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2016, the seventh annual program of fine art exhibitions, lectures, performances and public events organized by Savannah College of Art and at SCAD locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia and Hong Kong.

“A Poem in the Form of Flowers” is a collaborative architectural and multidisciplinary practice, R&R Studios, weaving together visual arts, exhibitions, design, architecture and urban design. Responding to the architecture of the SCAD Museum of Art, Behar and Marquardt present a site-specific installation that transforms and engages the façade of the museum. Each of the four Jewel Boxes contains a letter manufactured from colorful artificial flowers, collectively spelling out the word “poem.” Referencing commemorative practices, the installation, “A Poem in the Form of Flowers,” can be read as both an offering and a celebration.

Celebrated as “architects of hope,” Behar and Marquardt’s work proposes encounters with stories and spaces that alternate between the private and public, the intimate and the monumental, the quotidian and the fantastic. The exhibition is curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg, SCAD head curator of exhibitions.

Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt (R&R Studios) is a collaborative architectural and multidisciplinary practice weaving together visual arts, exhibitions, design, architecture and urban design. Their work has been presented in museums and art galleries in the United States and abroad. Exhibition venues include solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Miami Art Museum; The Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and group exhibitions at The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, The Beuberger Museum of Art in Purchase; the Centre International our la Ville; l’Architecture, et le Paysage (CIVA) in Brussels and the Institute Français d’Architecture in Paris.

R&R Studios’ award winning practice includes projects in Copenhagen, Buenos Aires, Miami, Mexico City and Bangalore (India). Most notable among their acclaimed urban interventions is the The Living Room, a 42’ tall unfinished home turned inside out that performs as a social sculpture and bridges the gap between popular culture and contemporary Art.

Marquardt and Behar are currently completing projects in Seattle, San Francisco and des Moines, as well as exhibitions at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the School of Architecture, University of Miami.

Their work has been published in over 200 publications worldwide, including Casabella, Lotus International, Abitare and Area (Italy); Wallpaper and Blueprint (UK); Elle (France); Summa, Barzón and La Nación (Argentina); Faces (Switzerland); Metropolis, Art News, Art Nexus, Art in America and The New York Times (USA). They have lectured on over 50 occasions in the United States, Europe, Israel and South America. Their work is represented in private and public collections in the United States, Europe and Japan. Five books have been published on their work, including Here Comes the Sun (2003); The Peace Projects (2007), M (2011); The Living Room (2013) and Museum Works (2013, the first three volumes in their series titled Incomplete Works. Behar and Marquardt work and live in Miami.