Matthew Marks arrived at Ellsworth Kelly’s studio in Columbia County, N.Y., last year with an architectural model of his new Los Angeles-area gallery. It was meant as both visual aid and inspiration. Mr. Marks was hoping to entice Mr. Kelly into creating something for the building’s facade. — NYT
The NYT discusses the future West Hollywood Matthew Marks Gallery, designed by ZELLNERPLUS, with Ellsworth Kelly sculpture-embellished façade.
Location: West Hollywood, California. 2011
Design Architect: ZELLNERPLUS
Structural Engineer: Gordon Polon SE
MEP Engineer: Creative Engineering Group
General Contractor: Tyler Development Corporation
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How clever of them...
Architectural design disguised as art? graphics? minimalism? The abstract facade is reduced to minimal elements: black horizontal bar, vertical door (figures), counterpointed in a 'relaxed' opposition (read neat and balanced) against white exterior (ground). Simple. The Kelly allusion is specific but obscure. This is where simple sophistication breaks apart as simple-minded sophistication.
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