"But most of Libeskind’s walls are empty, since there really isn’t much to be done with them. The task of making surfaces that you can actually hang paintings on has gone, instead, to Daniel Kohl, the museum’s installation designer. Kohl has created interior partitions that zig and zag in a way that recalls Libeskind’s angles but never directly mimics them; they are often painted in muted colors—plum, yellow, mossy green—to differentiate them from the white of Libeskind’s, so that there is no uncertainty about who did what. To the extent that Libeskind’s building is workable as a museum, it is Kohl who has made it so."
so why should an architect think that their projects are the art? not saying that musuems should only be vanila boxes but should we draw the line somewhere nearer to the art that apparently liberskind cant apprehend? its not a memorial or perhaps its a liberskind memorial.
Presumably the spatial ambition of a gallery relates to the specifics of Art on display. If these aren't known in advance, the other question to be addressed is 'is rectilnear white top-lit space really as objective and neutral as we often casually assume?'
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a 394-photo serier on flickr from construction to completion; another one & a few more
"But most of Libeskind’s walls are empty, since there really isn’t much to be done with them. The task of making surfaces that you can actually hang paintings on has gone, instead, to Daniel Kohl, the museum’s installation designer. Kohl has created interior partitions that zig and zag in a way that recalls Libeskind’s angles but never directly mimics them; they are often painted in muted colors—plum, yellow, mossy green—to differentiate them from the white of Libeskind’s, so that there is no uncertainty about who did what. To the extent that Libeskind’s building is workable as a museum, it is Kohl who has made it so."
so why should an architect think that their projects are the art? not saying that musuems should only be vanila boxes but should we draw the line somewhere nearer to the art that apparently liberskind cant apprehend? its not a memorial or perhaps its a liberskind memorial.
Presumably the spatial ambition of a gallery relates to the specifics of Art on display. If these aren't known in advance, the other question to be addressed is 'is rectilnear white top-lit space really as objective and neutral as we often casually assume?'
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