{"id":9748,"date":"2015-02-23T10:56:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T09:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=9748"},"modified":"2015-02-24T09:59:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T08:59:36","slug":"gio-marconis-new-gallery-by-kuehn-malvezzi-respects-the-rule-take-a-step-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2015\/02\/23\/gio-marconis-new-gallery-by-kuehn-malvezzi-respects-the-rule-take-a-step-back\/","title":{"rendered":"A new gallery designed by Kuehn Malvezzi respects the rule: take a step back"},"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-9748 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><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\/02\/23\/gio-marconis-new-gallery-by-kuehn-malvezzi-respects-the-rule-take-a-step-back\/img_6350\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_6350-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9777\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9777'>\n\t\t\t\tKuehn Malvezzi, Gi\u00f2 Marconi gallery, Milan, 2015, ph. Giovanna Silva.\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\/02\/23\/gio-marconis-new-gallery-by-kuehn-malvezzi-respects-the-rule-take-a-step-back\/img_6460\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_6460-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9779\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9779'>\n\t\t\t\tKuehn Malvezzi, Gi\u00f2 Marconi gallery, Milan, 2015, ph. Giovanna Silva.\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\/02\/23\/gio-marconis-new-gallery-by-kuehn-malvezzi-respects-the-rule-take-a-step-back\/img_6485\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_6485-320x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9780\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9780'>\n\t\t\t\tKuehn Malvezzi, Gi\u00f2 Marconi gallery, Milan, 2015, ph. Giovanna Silva.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><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\/02\/23\/gio-marconis-new-gallery-by-kuehn-malvezzi-respects-the-rule-take-a-step-back\/lh-4422mi-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"104\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/LH-4422mi-1-480x332.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9768\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9768'>\n\t\t\t\tSchaulager Liebeghaus Museum, Depository show commission, 2009. ph. Norbert Miguletz.\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\/02\/23\/gio-marconis-new-gallery-by-kuehn-malvezzi-respects-the-rule-take-a-step-back\/img_7690\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"93\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_7690-480x299.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9769\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9769'>\n\t\t\t\tStaedel Museum, Collection display, Frankfurt, 2012.\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\/02\/23\/gio-marconis-new-gallery-by-kuehn-malvezzi-respects-the-rule-take-a-step-back\/587-110\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/587-110-480x321.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9770\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9770'>\n\t\t\t\tKuehn Malvezzi, &#8220;Jeff Koons, The painter the sculptor&#8221;, Frankfurt, 2012. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><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\/02\/23\/gio-marconis-new-gallery-by-kuehn-malvezzi-respects-the-rule-take-a-step-back\/259-148re\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/259-148re-480x325.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9774\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9774'>\n\t\t\t\tKuehn Malvezzi, Flick Collection, ph. Ulrich Schwarz.\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\/02\/23\/gio-marconis-new-gallery-by-kuehn-malvezzi-respects-the-rule-take-a-step-back\/468-01det\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/468-01det-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9775\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9775'>\n\t\t\t\tKuehn Malvezzi, Gustav Carus, ph. Ulrich Schwarz.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Art, especially New Art, needs time and space to be developed and displayed. With this idea in mind, in the early 80s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modern-art.ch\/en\/9EA30EB5-5056-BE64-B6562646EEAC76F8\" target=\"_blank\">Urs and Christel Raussm\u00fcller<\/a> set up their collection in a former textile factory in the city of Schaffausen, on the banks of the Rhine. Prestigious works were installed, including Joseph Beuys\u2019 Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977 at its core. In order to make fit it in, the ceiling was cut away between the walls.<\/p>\n<p>This is a story that Italian architect Simona Malvezzi likes to offer to explain what architecture should do its relation with art: take a step back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Malvezzi is the founder, together with German brothers Wilfried and Johannes Kuehn, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuehnmalvezzi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KUEHN MALVEZZI <\/a>firm, established in Berlin in 2001. They first gained recognition for their exhibition-focused work \u2013 from Documenta 11 in Kassel to the extension of the Christian Flick\u2019s Collection \u2013 which they evolved to the level of \u201ccuratorial design\u201d, an expression coined by Wilfried Kuehn himself. \u201cArchitecture shouldn&#8217;t show. It should create spaces that are functional to the purpose of the exhibition and foster the relation between the artwork and the viewer\u201d says Simona Malvezzi at the opening of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.giomarconi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Gi\u00f2 Marconi<\/a>\u2019s brand new venue in Via Tadino 20 in Milan, formerly rented out to Galleria Zero. Her studio has completely renovated it, using the same codes applied exactly 10 years ago to the space in Via Tadino 15 that Mr Marconi was previously sharing with his father Giorgio \u2013 founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fondazionemarconi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fondazione Marconi<\/a> \u2013 who\u2019s now getting ready for a big retrospective on Arte Povera in time for Expo. \u201cWe prefer a restricted palette of colors stripped down to two, basic standard components \u2013 for example we used handles that you might normally see at the gym \u2013 and un-textured surfaces\u201d adds Malvezzi. Anything that might distract from the presence and the fruition of the work of art is removed, and this is also the aim of architecture, to make the surroundings invisible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But if the archetype of the contemporary gallery is the modernist atelier of Le Corbusier &#8211; which should be painted any color as long as it\u2019s white &#8211; when it comes to historic art, the \u201cwhite cube\u201d gives way to another kind of environment. \u201cTraditionally there is no demarcation between the living space and the working space of the artist. Until 19th century the iconography of the atelier shows rooms filled with paintings hanging from colorful walls: often it\u2019s tapestry\u201d. In order to evoke the original setting, old masters keep to be shown surrounded by nuances that blend with the colors found in the works themselves. What is more interesting is that this clear line between the modern way and the old fashioned ways is starting to blur, and as Malvezzi suggests \u201cmore and more contemporary art is being exhibited in historic venues\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Less than three years ago KUEHN MALVEZZI curated with Vinzenz Brinkmann <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liebieghaus.de\/lh\/index.php?StoryID=501\">&#8220;<\/a><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liebieghaus.de\/lh\/index.php?StoryID=501\">Jeff Koons. The painter and the Sculptor&#8221;<\/a>, an encyclopedic show in Frankfurt, where the work of the American artist was in dialogue with the permanent collection of antiques at the Liebieghaus museum for what was at the time his biggest ever retrospective. Architecture here worked to create a bound between the two worlds. \u201cThe display didn&#8217;t make a distinction between old and new, but Koons\u2019 pieces were staged to revamp the backing collection. You couldn&#8217;t really tell what was front row and what was background\u201d muses Malvezzi. \u201cWe have created an interesting ambiguity\u201d. Perhaps the elegant and skillful display was suggesting that art belongs to the time when it is enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art, especially New Art, needs time and space to be developed and displayed. 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