A brief overview of the architectural features of the Guggenheim in New York and artists who have made site specific work with the "void" as a location.

2. China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

3. PRONUNCIATIONS
Sun Xun – “soon shoon”
Chia En Jao - “CHEE-A En Jyao”
Kan Xuan – “caan shwen”
Zhou Tao – “joe dao”
Yangjiang - “yaang jyang”
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu – “soon yu-en” & pung yur”
Tsang Kin-Wah – “chiang kin–wa”

4. OBSERVATIONS AND QUESTIONS
KT: Lots of references to artistic
homes, religion, personal details
and such.
Janel: This will not be traditional
Asian art.
Seth: These artists are
intending to touch on topics
similar to Reyes…but we’ll see it
from a new perspective.
Chess: There’s a question
about how adrift these topics are
from “cultural centers.”
.
.
JJ: Are there Cultural
Social norms.
Khiri: How do these pieces
undo the fabrications
portrayed by history?
Dolfo: Relationship
between storytelling and
history writing?
.

5. OBSERVATIONS AND QUESTIONS
Similar to Reyes’ ideas, but
through other mediums.
Like social/global issues
.
Trying to remove the idea of
boundaries. No biased
perspectives on history.
No more social constructs!
.
Controversial perspectives
about western versions of
world history.
SITE
SPECIFICITY
.What era of history are
they working with?
.
How long ago was this
planned?
What forms are art and
techniques are we gonna
see?
.

6. ARCHITECTURE AND
HISTORY

7. THE SOLOMON R.
GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
Solomon R. Guggenheim was a wealthy
businessman who earned much of his fortune
from the Yukon Gold Company in Alaska. His
Foundation for visual art was founded in 1937,
and its first New York–based venue for the
display of art, the Museum of Non-Objective
Painting, opened in 1939.
At the time they were known for their somewhat
eccentric art collection, featuring many great
works by Vasily Kandinsky, The need for a
permanent building to house Guggenheim’s art
collection became evident in the early 1940s, and
in 1943 renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright
gained the commission to design a museum in
New York City. The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum opened on October 21, 1959…despite
many petitions against it.

8. THE SOLOMON R.
GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
Solomon R. Guggenheim was a wealthy
businessman who earned much of his fortune
from the Yukon Gold Company in Alaska. His
Foundation for visual art was founded in 1937,
and its first New York–based venue for the
display of art, the Museum of Non-Objective
Painting, opened in 1939.
At the time they were known for their somewhat
eccentric art collection, featuring many great
works by Vasily Kandinsky, The need for a
permanent building to house Guggenheim’s art
collection became evident in the early 1940s, and
in 1943 renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright
gained the commission to design a museum in
New York City. The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum opened on October 21, 1959…despite
many petitions against it.

9. THE SOLOMON R.
GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION

10. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S
ORIGINAL DESIGNS…

11. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S
ORIGINAL DESIGNS…

12. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S
ORIGINAL DESIGNS…

13. CURRENT SCHEMATICBuilt in 1959
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Signature material: Concrete
Style: Modernism

14. THE GUGGENHEIM
NEW YORK
Built in 1959
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Signature material: Concrete
Style: Modernism

15. THE GUGGENHEIM
BILBAO, SPAIN
Built in 1997
Designed by Frank Gehry
Signature material: Titanium
Style: Deconstructivist

16. THE GUGGENHEIM
VENICE, ITALY Built in 1750s (purchased in 1930s)
Designed by Lorenzo Boschetti
Signature material: Istrian Stone
Style: Palladian Palazzo

17. THE GUGGENHEIM
MISSION
Committed to innovation, the
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation collects, preserves,
and interprets modern and
contemporary art, and explores
ideas across cultures through
dynamic curatorial and
educational initiatives and
collaborations. With its
constellation of architecturally
and culturally distinct museums,
exhibitions, publications, and
digital platforms, the foundation
engages both local and global
audiences.

18. THE VOID AND
SITE SPECIFIC WORK
maurer united architects: full half moonOne of Louise Bourgeois’
Spiders

19. Site Specific Commissions
• KT: Whatever you can imagine in the space…the work
has to “fit” the space.
• Chess: “I want you to make a piece with some
requirements and it has to be HERE (in a given location)
and relate to the surrounding area.
• Janel: There’s going to be a lot of challenges to
this..knowing WHAT to make can be tricky with this.
• Gio: Like Doomocracy, it’s specific to our time’s social
and political issues.
• .
• .
.
TALES OF OUR TIME (TOOT) IS 100%

20. Site Specific Commissions
• Cailan: Asking an artist to do a piece of work in a
specific place
• Tash: Commissions are when artists get paid to do
things…so this is like being paid to do something in a
specific location. Like the work has to “fit” the location.
• Tae: Sometimes their purpose is to raise awareness
towards the location/neighborhood
• Artwork that is “Anchored” in TIME and SPACE.
• Wing: The bowery mural is specific to that time and
place.
TALES OF OUR TIME (TOOT) IS 100%

21. THE VOID
maurer united architects: full half moon

22. CAI GUO-QIANG
INOPPORTUNE:
STAGE ONE
CARS (FORD
TAURUS),
LIGHTING
TUBES 2004
AT THE
GUGGENHEIM

23. CAI GUO-QIANG
INOPPORTUNE:
STAGE ONE
CARS (FORD
TAURUS),
LIGHTING TUBES
2004
AT THE
GUGGENHEIM
“Personally, I like some
things to be accidental
and hard to control.
Uncertainty has a certain
allure to me.”
From China

24. MAURIZIO
CATALAN
“ALL”
2011
OVER 30 YEARS
WORTH OF HIS
ART!

25. MAURIZIO
CATALAN
TITLE
DATE
MATERIALS

26. MAURIZIO
CATALAN
“ALL”
2011
“I am happy as long as they don't live
near me,” he once told this
correspondent. “When they are
conceived, I cuddle them but the
moment they are released, they
become orphans. Mostly I hate them.”
From Italy

27. Maurizio Cattelan
“America”
2016

28. DAN FLAVIN
UNTITLED
(TO TRACY, TO
CELEBRATE THE LOVE OF
A LIFETIME)
1992

29. DAN FLAVIN

30. “One has no choice but to accept the fact of
temporary art.
Permanence just defies everything.”
From Jamaica, Queens, USA

31. What about our School? Our
building?
Our neighborhood?
What are the spaces that
seem to crave artwork
being placed in them?
• The “Honeycombs” on the ceiling. They have potential for site
specific work.
• KT: The giant cube in the front. The MLK cube.
• Chess: the stairways, they’re so bleak.
• Raian: The windows, there’s potential to show a HUGE picture
on them. Other buildings can’t do that.
• Anna: the terrace(s) have potential for….ART!
• Anna: Lincoln center has a lot of site specific art…it wouldn’t
look “good” in a different place.
.

32. What about our School? Our
building?
Our neighborhood?
What are the spaces that
seem to crave artwork
being placed in them?
• Riddles: The metal framework…reminds me of a prison.
• Cailan: The ceiling outside with all the colors.
• Jess: The exterior terrace with those cubes of plants.
• Michelle: the MLK Cube!! It’s so drab and dark…we wanna
give it some color. (Cor-Ten Steel) and the lunch room.
• Anesia: The stairs leading up to the terrace.
• Camila: the interior hallways.
• Tash: The lobby….
• Michelle: Boring classrooms….we gotta spruce it up.
• Anesia: Our school has plants around the windows.
• Jess: I love the windows. They’ open up the space and bring
light in.
.

33. An untitled digital print
by Josephine Meckseper

34. ….

35. THE GUGGENHEIM
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES (UAE)
Finished by 2017??
Designed by Frank Gehry
Style: Deconstructivist

36. THE GUGGENHEIM
ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES (UAE)
Finished by 2017??
Designed by Frank Gehry
Style: Deconstructivist

37. Finished by 2017
Designed by Frank Gehry
Style: Deconstructivist

38. THE GUGGENHEIM
HISTORY AND
CONTROVERSY

39. THE GUGGENHEIM
HISTORY AND
CONTROVERSY
As of Feb 2016, construction
still hadn’t started….

40. MOVING ALONG…

41. THE SOLOMON R.
GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
TOOT IS IN HERE
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