Summer of Love
The Schirn Kunsthalle poses a special challenge to the exhibition designer, being 70 meters long and 10 meters wide with a circular atrium at the end. Thinking up ways to break up the linearity of the space has resulted in two very different exhibition lay-outs. An earlier design consisting of a purple, suspended construction for the architectural show ‘Visions and Utopias’ darkened the space to focus the attention on often finely detailed work, whereas the ‘Summer of Love’ shown here broaches almost the opposite effect.
The exhibition of psychedelic art of the 1960-s and 1970-s consists of 350 highly diverse items from the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, film, environment, architecture, graphic design, and fashion. The strong visual impact of the works is capitalized on. Two abstracted, stretched-out spirals intertwine, generating interstitial spaces where installations and larger-sized works are placed. The entire construction has been painted silver as homage to the spirit of the time.
Client: Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Program: Exhibition design for ‘Exhibition Summer of Love’
Gross floor surface: 800 m²
Design
UN Studio: Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos with Job Mouwen, Christian Veddeler and Cristina Bolis, Holger Hoffmann, Kristoph Nowak, Kristin Sandner
Advisors
Production: p & p, Fürth/Odenwald
Construction: H + M Bühnenservice GmbH / Nüssli-Deutschland GmbH, Giessen
Information:
spiral into walls and into ceilings, enclosing several spaces for the projection of psychedelic movies are generated. The entire construction has been painted silver as homage to the spirit of the time.
Material: wood frame, mdf, silver paint finish
Construction. Partly selfstanding, party ceiling suspended, manufacturing P+P-GmbH, Fürth Germany
Lighting: spotlights outside of the structure/integrated downlights
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