[i must say that the local University of Minnesota,
Weisman Art Museum has an exhibit of the artwork from
southern california that influenced Frank Gehry, the
designer of the museum building in which this homage
to the artist-architect is being shown. i had absolutely
no interest in going to see this exhibit though happened
to be near so went in and walked through it. i have never
been in a museum where i got absolutely nothing from the
experience though there is a fist time for everything.
it was entirely banal and glaringly exemplifies a lack
of meaning beyond another 'modern' variety of formalism.
the artwork, in essence, had no there there, no substance
beyond form, no deep vibrations, emotions, knowledge. nada.
it was to to show the influences of the greatness of the
architect, yet instead it rings very hollow as experience.
still stunned that it was so utterly and completely banal.]
Towering egos // via archnewsnow.com
From Hitler's vision of a new Berlin to Tony Blair's Dome and Michael Eisner's EuroDisney, tyrants, kings and tycoons have erected grand monuments to their own vanity. Deyan Sudjic deconstructs the Edifice Complex
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1494807,00.html
Weisman Art Museum has an exhibit of the artwork from
southern california that influenced Frank Gehry, the
designer of the museum building in which this homage
to the artist-architect is being shown. i had absolutely
no interest in going to see this exhibit though happened
to be near so went in and walked through it. i have never
been in a museum where i got absolutely nothing from the
experience though there is a fist time for everything.
it was entirely banal and glaringly exemplifies a lack
of meaning beyond another 'modern' variety of formalism.
the artwork, in essence, had no there there, no substance
beyond form, no deep vibrations, emotions, knowledge. nada.
it was to to show the influences of the greatness of the
architect, yet instead it rings very hollow as experience.
still stunned that it was so utterly and completely banal.]
Towering egos // via archnewsnow.com
From Hitler's vision of a new Berlin to Tony Blair's Dome and Michael Eisner's EuroDisney, tyrants, kings and tycoons have erected grand monuments to their own vanity. Deyan Sudjic deconstructs the Edifice Complex
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1494807,00.html