Sentences with phrase «entire rotunda»
In 1992, Flavin's original conception for a 1971 piece was fully realized in a site - specific installation that filled the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's entire rotunda on the occasion of the museum's reopening.
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The 36 - year - old London - based German artist's «constructed situations» — involving performers who sing, dance, converse, or otherwise destabilizingly interact with viewers — can cast astonishing spells on both intimate scale (Kiss, 2007) and in the art world's biggest arenas (Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2012 and the Guggenheim's entire rotunda in 2010).
His major retrospective at the Guggenheim this month will put this achievement in stark relief, filling the museum's entire rotunda with three decades of work for the artist's most comprehensive exhibition yet.
Not exact matches
For this exhibition, Cattelan sidestepped the totalizing effect of a retrospective by devising a site - specific installation in which his entire oeuvre was suspended from the oculus of the museum's iconic rotunda.
His pieces could be symphonic, filling entire museums — as they did the rotunda of the Guggenheim in 1971 and again in 1992 — and highlighting their exteriors as well, as at the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden - Baden, Germany, in 1989.