The gallery recently located from
a small white cube space in the trendy The Pijp area to a piano nobile just by one of Amsterdam's iconic grand canal houses.
Not exact matches
«14 Rooms» takes place in Basel's oldest trade fair hall, one transformed by Swiss architectural heroes Herzog & de Meuron into a wide corridor
space with 14
small,
white cubes leading off it, each behind closed doors with wooden handles.
He called his
small premises there
White Cube in reference to the influential collection of essays by Brian O'Doherty, Inside the
White Cube: Ideologies of the Gallery
Space, in which the author argued that the blank, box
spaces of modern galleries had themselves become «the archetypal image of 20th - century art».
The focus on the dissolution of the
white cube is a MacGuffin; while the
smaller galleries are forced to close, the
space for viewing art is concentrating into the larger galleries and foundations,
spaces that now seem to be posing as public museum
spaces.
You find everything here from
white cube galleries to gritty cellar like
spaces with bare brick walls; cliche hipster bars,
small boutiques, a shop that only sells chocolate, a weekly flower market, juice places, parks, the bike shed, design hotels such as the Ace Hotel and Shoreditch House, fantastic restaurants, tiny cafes, record stores, even the canal is just a quick walk away.
International Focus: Hong Kong discusses Hong Kong's cash - rich and bourgeoning art scene, which has become home to major international players who have recently opened up their first Asian outposts in the city, such as
White Cube and Gagosian, as well as a new international art fair and a plethora of
smaller commercial galleries and contemporary art
spaces.
Contemporary Art's sterile and vapid embracement of commerce and style in a hegemonic culture of
white cubes, art fairs and Bienalle's is being rightly challenged by a new breed of artist whose work demands to be seen, whether on the streets, or in the recent explosion of
small independent galleries and project
spaces dedicated to providing a platform for this generations voices.
Situated at 50 Moganshan Rd., which has developed to become Shanghai's artistic centre, the main gallery (bldg 16) serves as a show room for displays of artworks and
smaller exhibitions, while the larger H -
Space (bldg 18) woeks as a flexible
white -
cube exhibition hall for the display of extensive shows and grand scale projects.