{"id":10801,"date":"2015-06-23T13:34:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T11:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2015-06-23T14:07:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T12:07:34","slug":"schaulager-the-first-public-depo-is-finally-fully-operational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2015\/06\/23\/schaulager-the-first-public-depo-is-finally-fully-operational\/","title":{"rendered":"Schaulager: the first public depo is finally fully operational"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10801 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2015\/06\/23\/schaulager-the-first-public-depo-is-finally-fully-operational\/delaunay_-h_1943-4_da01\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/future_present_robert_delaunay_l-317x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10806\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10806'>\n\t\t\t\tRobert Delaunay, La Tour Eiffel, 1910-1911, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, photo: Martin P. B\u00fchler.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2015\/06\/23\/schaulager-the-first-public-depo-is-finally-fully-operational\/sl_0002_innen_l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sl_0002_innen_l-318x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10811\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10811'>\n\t\t\t\tSchaulager\u00ae M\u00fcnchenstein\/Basel Herzog &#038; de Meuron, Architects Photo: Adrian Fritschi, Z\u00fcrich.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2015\/06\/23\/schaulager-the-first-public-depo-is-finally-fully-operational\/future_present_ausstellung_05_l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"77\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/future_present_ausstellung_05_l-480x245.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10802\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10802'>\n\t\t\t\tFuture Present. Emanuel Hoffmann-. Zeitgen\u00f6ssische Kunst von der Klassischen Moderne bis heute, 13.6.2015\u201331.01.2016, Schaulager \u00ae M\u00fcnchenstein\/Basel, Ausstellungsansicht: Werke von Bruce Nauman, John Baldessari und Joseph Beuys, alle Werke: Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Depositum in der \u00d6ffentlichen Kunstsammlung Basel, Foto: Tom Bisig, Basel.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2015\/06\/23\/schaulager-the-first-public-depo-is-finally-fully-operational\/future_present_piet_mondrian_l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"119\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/future_present_piet_mondrian_l-382x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10805\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10805'>\n\t\t\t\tPiet Mondrian, TABLEAU 3, with Orange-Red, Yellow, Black, Blue, and Gray, 1921, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, photo: Martin P. B\u00fchler.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2015\/06\/23\/schaulager-the-first-public-depo-is-finally-fully-operational\/sl_0003_innen_l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/sl_0003_innen_l-480x322.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10812\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10812'>\n\t\t\t\t\tSchaulager\u00ae M\u00fcnchenstein\/Basel Herzog &#038; de Meuron, Architects Photo: Adrian Fritschi, Z\u00fcrich.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2015\/06\/23\/schaulager-the-first-public-depo-is-finally-fully-operational\/future_present_max_ernst_soleil_l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"117\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/future_present_max_ernst_soleil_l-374x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10804\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10804'>\n\t\t\t\tMax Ernst, La roue du soleil (Grande marine), 1926, oil on canvas, 145 \u00d7 112 cm. Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, photo: Martin P. B\u00fchler.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Visitors of the first extensive overview in 30 years of the Emanuel Hoffmann family collection are not allowed to take pictures of the artworks, nor of the interiors of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schaulager.org\/future-present\/\" target=\"_blank\">Schaulager<\/a>, the museum founded in 2003 to host this 80-year-old extraordinary collection. And apparently this is the only disputable aspect of the policy chosen by what ought to be considered the perfect museum, especially now that the upper floors are finally accessible to the public thus providing a full experience of the building designed by Basel-based architecture firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herzogdemeuron.com\/index\/projects\/complete-works\/151-175\/169-schaulager.html\" target=\"_blank\">Herzog &amp; De Meuron<\/a> between 1998 and 1999. Until last 13 June, in fact, only the ground floor and the basement were opened to the public, and the two identities of this massive bunker-like architecture \u2013 exhibition space (schau) and storage (lager) \u2013 were indeed separated despite the original idea of merging these two generally-distinct functions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Probably inspired by the need of showing the kind of bold and multimedia installations collected by the notorious philanthropist<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmagazine.com\/culture\/art-and-design\/2012\/09\/maja-hoffmann-art-world-maverick\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Maja Hoffmann<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 granddaughter of sculptress Maja Stehlin, who started the collection with her husband Emanuel Hoffmann in the Thirties and then created the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation after he died prematurely in a car accident (1933) \u2013 the idea of public storage has been recently followed by the Boijmans museum too. But while <a href=\"http:\/\/Will the City of Rotterdam make the world's first Public Art Depot real?\" target=\"_blank\">the Dutch project is still waiting to be approved<\/a> by Rotterdam&#8217;s city council, the Schaulager is now fully operational, and is the first of this kind, since also the Louvre Lens&#8217; deposit can indeed be seen only from outside.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before everything else, it must be said that the quality of the Hoffmann collection is terrifically high. From Robert Delaunay to Julian Schnabel, as from Max Ernst to Bruce Naumann, not to mention Maja Oeri&#8217;s acquisitions such as Matthew Barney, Ilya Kabakov or Robert Gober. The pieces are always beautiful, perfectly preserved, necessary, never obvious, and in the right scale \u2013 as the small delicate Joan Mir\u00f2 from 1949 proves. At the moment, private not-aristocratic art collections so well conceived, curated and displayed can be counted on one hand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By being in touch with all these masterpieces you perceive the time spent to gather them together as a visual and monumental entity that the building itself is hardly able to contain. This latter turns out to be a sort of powerful shell, with just one thin window to look outside, and an amount of void space that could recall the parliament in Star Wars Episode III, when the Sith takes the power and declares the birth of the Empire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But even the most perfect glass has what Roland Barthes would call its \u201cpoint of corruption\u201d (Fragments d&#8217;un discours amoureax, 1977). In this case this point could be spotted in the lightening, which tends to yellow and could have a slight but disturbing hypnotic effect, or in the format of the rooms at the first, second and third floor. According to the architects, the building was conceived part as an exhibition space, and part as a storage. But when accessing the storage area this clean perfection and virtuosic minimalism (pay attention to details such as the intersection of the surfaces) may make you feel like being in a hospital, with corridors and patients, instead of artists, inside the wide, sometimes too wide rooms. Some of them are accessible, while others are not. You can enter Paul Chan&#8217;s installation, for example, or the impressive Gary Simmons&#8217; film. But other rooms in the same corridor are closed by high and monumental (again) doors with no handles. In this frame this could seem like a mysterious and a bit disquieting dark side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors of the first extensive overview in 30 years of the Emanuel Hoffmann family collection are not allowed to take pictures of the artworks, nor of the interiors of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[1981,1979,1980,1976,1659,1982,1978,1977,1961],"class_list":["post-10801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape","tag-bruce-naumann","tag-gary-smmons","tag-hans-arp","tag-maja-hoffmann","tag-matthew-barney","tag-max-ernst","tag-paul-chan","tag-robert-delaunay","tag-robert-gober"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}