Following last year’s exhibition of empty spaces at the Centre Pompidou and this season’s Tino Sehgal exhibition, which takes place at the Guggenheim but leaves every wall and floor bereft of objects (“in the naked museum“), now there’s Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum.
For the building’s 50th anniversary, the museum invited 200 artists, architects, and designers to submit their proposals for how to fill Frank Lloyd Wright’s glorious, space-sucking rotunda
Seattle’s Olson Kundig Architects dreamt up a postapocalyptic farmers market. It’s the year 2060, and in a sly dig at Wright, the building has become uninhabitable as a museum due to the catastrophic expansion of its infamous cracks in the walls. Central Park has been taken over by growers; they come into the old museum to sell their wares. Sci-fi from Seattle.
There are plenty of dull proposals, but there are also some great ones. A few are on the jump, and the museum has a great, full online exhibition here.
This just seems like it would hurt.
South African provocateur Kendell Geers wants to plant a bomb and go on trial for it.
More on the cracks.
Put your thing down, flip it, and reverse it.
Josiah McElheny’s modernist reflections strike again.
For a good look at FL Wright’s genius concrete work at the Guggenheim, have a look at http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/0… . His other masterpiece Fallingwater is an even worse structural disaster, with sagging cantilevers and hopeless leaks and mold problems, causing its former owner to nickname it “Falling Water, Rising Mildew”. Wright was one crappy engineer. ALL of his buildings leak like sieves.