It is a fine line isn't it – and I believe totally subjective - what makes a good home to art?
We have probably all seen examples of architecture imposing on art in some of the rudest and most thoughtless ways. But I do believe unless you go the white cube route (which I do not want to endorse) we will all have different examples of what we cite as insensitive.
Luck did lead me to the Beyeler Foundation Museum a few years ago and I can easily say it was the most overwhelming art-in-context experience I have ever had. Overwhelming in that the space only enhanced the art within, for me it did not detract, but made the experience "spiritual" and singular. But the architect had the advantage of a fixed permanent collection for which he designed for – as opposed to kunsthalles where the architect does not know what potentially might come. I do believe that the architecture should never compete with the art. But whose definition of competition do you follow?
"Two decades before the Centre Pompidou began to change the social implications of art, the New York Guggenheim laid the groundwork for a new way of looking at it. By his replacement of the traditional box with a continuos spiral in the Guggenheim, Wright prepared the way for the creation of the "Museum as Environmental Art"..
Victoria Newhouse.
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We have probably all seen examples of architecture imposing on art in some of the rudest and most thoughtless ways. But I do believe unless you go the white cube route (which I do not want to endorse) we will all have different examples of what we cite as insensitive.
Luck did lead me to the Beyeler Foundation Museum a few years ago and I can easily say it was the most overwhelming art-in-context experience I have ever had. Overwhelming in that the space only enhanced the art within, for me it did not detract, but made the experience "spiritual" and singular. But the architect had the advantage of a fixed permanent collection for which he designed for – as opposed to kunsthalles where the architect does not know what potentially might come. I do believe that the architecture should never compete with the art. But whose definition of competition do you follow?
"Two decades before the Centre Pompidou began to change the social implications of art, the New York Guggenheim laid the groundwork for a new way of looking at it. By his replacement of the traditional box with a continuos spiral in the Guggenheim, Wright prepared the way for the creation of the "Museum as Environmental Art".. Victoria Newhouse.
- selma 4-12-2004 7:54 pm