Friday, February 19, 2010

The museum with the hole in the middle

Nature and museum directors abhor a vacuum. Always on the look out for a void to fill, they contrive dome projects, window installations, entrance enhancements - you know the sort of thing. When it comes to voids no one has a better one than the Guggenheim, famously crafted by the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. We’ve posted on the Guggenheim more than a couple of times and here are some new ways to look at its extraordinary space via a current exhibition called Contemplating the void. A number of artists, designers and architects were asked to propose an installation to feature the foyer surrounded by Wright’s corkscrew gallery.
Images: From top left, Josephine Meckseper, Saunders Architecture, Anish Kapoor and Neil M Denari Architects