MoMA: FROM HECKSCHER BUILDING (1929) to SCOFIDI&RENFRO (2019)
""In un appartamento di sei stanze al dodicesimo piano dello Hekscher Building, "The Ladies" inaugurano nel Novembre 1929, con la direzione di Alfred H. Barr Jr, "Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh", la prima delle esposizioni previste nei successivi due anni dall'appena istituito Museum of Modern Art."" N. Ventura, 2021
"The three principal museum typologies of nineteenth century are the temple, the palace, and the exposition hall". G.D. Lowry 1998
A.H BARR JR, 1929-1949
""All'architettura di Goodwin&Stone in dichiarato international style segue l'espansione di Jonhson che guarda al Mies americano, poi Pelli si rivolge alla serra per distendere verso il giardino l'edificio di Goodwin&Stone e insieme collegarsi alla Museum Tower." Nel 1949, A.Barr jr, viene sostituito nella direzione da R.D' Hanouncourt." N. Ventura, 2022
R. D'HANOUNCOURT 1949-1967
"The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people to enjoy, understand and use visual arts of our time." A.Jr. Barr, 1929
"he (R. D'Halancourt "learned" the artworks by sketching them, and then he amassed them with the intention "to relate the individual pieces to their cultural and/or artistic neighbors…in other words, to assemble objects that had some affinities."
"The Museum of Modern Art is a laboratory: in its experiments the pubblic is invited to partecipate." A. Jr Barr, 1939
"The museum's midblock location distinguishes it from other major New York city museums, most of which are located on the wider avenues and farther to the north. As a "street museum", it is not identified as an object surrounded by space, but as a part of the streetscape". G.D. Lowry, 1998
1929-1939 The first ten years
1940-1953 The Road to Victory
1954-1963 Master of Modern Art
1965-1972 Word and Image
1973-1984 Trasfomations
1985.1994 Allegories of Modernism
1995-2004 Modern Contemporary
""Con l'intervento di Taniguchi, lo street museum č diventato the dual street museum tra la 53th e la 54th, quasi una avenue pedonale "passante", di libera circolazione. Scofido&Renfro hanno proposto nuovi spazi alla cittŕ,dal giardino a sale di accoglimento sia verso la 53th street presso la biglietteria e il bookstore, sia affacciate sul giardino"." N. Ventura, 2022
G. D. LOWRY 1995-2025
""Al piano terra, lo street museum diviene the dual street museum tra la 53th e la 54th, quasi una avenue interna "passante" , sia pure di sezione ridotta, di libera circolazione come una strada urbana dove si affacciano locali per il teatro e per il cinema, oltre ai desk di informazione e biglietteria"" N. Ventura, 2022
"four guiding or, indeed, foundational principles: continuity, intimacy, privacy, and this notion of seamless whole.(…)
Continuity influence the notion of narrativity and involves the way in which art is shown;
intimacy is always culturally mediated;
privacy involved the relationship of
the viewer to the work of arts;
the notion of seamless whole, which is
giving way to complexity (and then,
ndr) to globalization and virtualization." M. Taylor,1998
"The Museum recognize it cannot expand by simple
enlarging the model that has guided it during past decades.
It is too complex an institution, and the history of modern
art is now too long and too varied to be told within the
intimate, domestic-scale galleries and buildings that
currently characterize the Museum. This does not means
abandoning the sense of intimate that makes the Museum
such an enjoyable place to visit; but it does mean
realizing that intimacy is both a function scale and
perception, and that in future we will have to rely on the
clarity and intelligence of the architecture to provide a
variety of spaces, which is and of themselves retain a
feeling of intimacy, even if the whole is no longer of
modest scale". G.D. Lowry, 1998
YOSHIO TANIGUCHI, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK 2003 (ph 2010-2016)
YOSHIO TANIGUCHI, THE A.A. ROCKFELLER SCUPLTURE GARDEN, NEW YORK 2003
(ph 2010-2016)
"Our garden has grown and shark and changed, but has been a focal point of definition for the museum." G. D. Lowry, 1998
""Qui allo Sculture Garden, quando i tempi si dilatano, i frequentatori amano sentirsi abitanti. Di un angolo di cittŕ. O forse dove la cittŕ si incontra e incontra l'arte per riconoscersi. Scrive Saramago: "se non esci da te stesso, non puoi sapere chi sei". La scommessa del MoMA č che l'isola sconosciuta forse non sarŕ nelle carte geografiche, ma č qui in cittŕ. Magari con simpatia verso gli altri visitatori, magari con simpatia verso gli stessi artisti ritratti dalle loro opere"." N. Ventura, 2022
DILLER SCOFIDIO&RENFRO, MOMA RENOVATION AND EXPANSION, 2019 (ph.2022)
"This project increases our gallery spaces by 30%, trasforms many our pubblic space into more wellcoming and inviting areas, and better connct the Museum to the urban fabric of midtown Manhattan by creating galleries that open onto the street and providing for a major circulation core that is visible to passerby." G.D. Lowry, 2019
"The value of this project is neither more space, nor better space but the new plan it creates to curatorial staff to rethink the experience of Museum." G.D. Lowry, 2019
bauhaus and beyound
picasso rousseau and the paris avanguardie
abstract and utopia
out of war
in and of paris
1940-1970
planes of colors
action painting
dived states of america
"The challenge for the Museum is to periodically reinvent itself, to map new space, metaphorically as well as practically; to do this it must be its own several critic." G.D. Lowry, 2019
every day encounters
touching the void
art as a verb
body on the line
searhe enigine
1970-TODAY
afer the wall
assembly
the sum of all parts
to live and die in new york
unstable ground
critical fabulation
