The work, measuring 66 by 32 feet, was a gigantic blue-and-white striped drape that hung from the top of the rotunda. It was Mr. Buren's contribution to the Sixth Guggenheim International, an important exhibition that signaled the arrival of a post-Pop generation of artists who fabricated artworks from rubber, lead, fluorescent tubes and plywood. Led by Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, 5 of the 17 artists in the show complained that Mr. Buren's big banner would prevent viewers at certain vantage points from seeing their works and demanded it be removed. The day before the opening, the museum capitulated, and it was taken away.
The latest artist to be given Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim to play with is the Frenchman Daniel Buren. His installation is a spectacular folly, a lumberingly chilly and theatrical construction, mirrored floor to ceiling. At 81 feet, it is a corner of what, if it were a cube, would be large enough to enclose the rotunda. Imagine a glass office tower slammed through the front of the building. You enter backstage, as it were, in shadow, under a high tarpaulin, the sight being only of scaffolding and plywood, which supports the dozens of large mirrored panels on the other side.
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- bill 3-20-2005 8:13 pm
The latest artist to be given Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim to play with is the Frenchman Daniel Buren. His installation is a spectacular folly, a lumberingly chilly and theatrical construction, mirrored floor to ceiling. At 81 feet, it is a corner of what, if it were a cube, would be large enough to enclose the rotunda. Imagine a glass office tower slammed through the front of the building. You enter backstage, as it were, in shadow, under a high tarpaulin, the sight being only of scaffolding and plywood, which supports the dozens of large mirrored panels on the other side.
- bill 3-25-2005 3:32 pm [add a comment]