"SANAA: Works 1998-2008" Exhibition
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
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The New Museum presents an exhibition of work by the highly regarded firm Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, designers of the institution's recently opened building on the Bowery.
The exhibition will present commissions and projects spanning the last decade, a highly productive period when their projects like The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art; and the new New Museum in New York won them considerable critical acclaim and public recognition.
"SANAA: Works 1998-2008," a collaboration between the New Museum's Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director and Karen Wong, Director of External Affairs, and SANAA, will also provide an opportunity to understand the new New Museum in the context of the firm's other work and practice. The exhibition will take the form of an environment rather than a traditional exhibition, exploiting and further exploring Sejima and Nishizawa's vision of the Museum lobby as, in their words, "a kind of constantly animated public-private living room where visitors can look, eat, read, shop, discover, and reflect among new art and new ideas."
On the occasion of “SANAA: Works 1998-2008,” the Museum will release SHIFT: SANAA and the New Museum, a book about the making of the New Museum’s building on the Bowery.
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from March 28, 2008 to June 15, 2008
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Hoping this show will restore SANAA to my favor, after (it has to be said) the major disappointment that is their New Museum itself.
The installation, perfectly SANAA, situated on the ground floor, behind the glass wall, behind the public cafe( and also in it) giving the illusion of being part of the public space, but being really part of the museum programming, looks a bit like a playground and reflect the SANAA take on the public/private. The visitors can test out the rabbit and other chairs and tables. Don't miss the videos showing the playful brainstorming behind some of the projects. Some say, it all spells out, it's gonna leak, but I still love the designs. @ adamgreenfield - New Museum a disappointment?
Momus at Click Opera assesses the Japanese architects best in this entry http://imomus.livejournal.com/168270.html