China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

PRONUNCIATIONSSun 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”

OBSERVATIONS AND QUESTIONSKT: 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?.

OBSERVATIONS AND QUESTIONSSimilar 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? .

ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY

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.

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.

THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S ORIGINAL DESIGNS…

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S ORIGINAL DESIGNS…

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S ORIGINAL DESIGNS…

CURRENT SCHEMATIC Built in 1959Designed by Frank Lloyd WrightSignature material: ConcreteStyle: Modernism

THE GUGGENHEIMNEW YORK

Built in 1959Designed by Frank Lloyd WrightSignature material: ConcreteStyle: Modernism

THE GUGGENHEIMBILBAO, SPAIN

Built in 1997Designed by Frank GehrySignature material: TitaniumStyle: Deconstructivist

THE GUGGENHEIMVENICE, ITALY Built in 1750s (purchased in 1930s)

Designed by Lorenzo Boschetti Signature material: Istrian StoneStyle: Palladian Palazzo

THE GUGGENHEIMMISSION

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.

THE VOID ANDSITE SPECIFIC WORK

maurer united architects: full half moonOne of Louise Bourgeois’ Spiders

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%

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%

THE VOID

maurer united architects: full half moon

CAI GUO-QIANG

INOPPORTUNE: STAGE ONE

CARS (FORD TAURUS),

LIGHTING TUBES 2004AT THE

GUGGENHEIM

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

MAURIZIO CATALAN

“ALL”

2011

OVER 30 YEARS WORTH OF HIS

ART!

MAURIZIO CATALAN

TITLE

DATE

MATERIALS

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

Maurizio Cattelan“America”2016

DAN FLAVIN

UNTITLED(TO TRACY, TO

CELEBRATE THE LOVE OF A LIFETIME)1992

DAN FLAVIN

“One has no choice but to accept the fact of temporary art.

Permanence just defies everything.”

From Jamaica, Queens, USA

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. .

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. .

An untitled digital print by Josephine Meckseper

….

THE GUGGENHEIMABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB

EMIRATES (UAE)Finished by 2017??Designed by Frank Gehry

Style: Deconstructivist

THE GUGGENHEIMABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB

EMIRATES (UAE)

Finished by 2017??Designed by Frank Gehry

Style: Deconstructivist

Finished by 2017Designed by Frank Gehry

Style: Deconstructivist

THE GUGGENHEIMHISTORY AND CONTROVERSY

THE GUGGENHEIMHISTORY AND CONTROVERSY

As of Feb 2016, construction still hadn’t started….

MOVING ALONG…

THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION

TOOT IS IN HERE