The relationship between an artist’s studio and a gallery is intriguing, as each is traditionally associated with a specific part of the creative process. In the case of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao—which marked its 20th anniversary last October—architect Frank Gehry let the studio space inform the gallery, with inspiration in part from an artist whose work, and studio, are currently the subject of a presentation at the Guggenheim in New York: Constantin Brancusi.
Brancusi stressed the importance of the spatial relationships between his sculptures by placing them in what he called “mobile groups” that he continually adjusted in order to find new connections and possibilities. As a Gallery Guide at the Guggenheim, I often talk to visitors in the current Bracusi presentation about the artist’s particular use of the studio, showing them how they can get a sense of his approach by going back and forth between the sculptures and archival photographs of his space.
While designing the Bilbao museum, Gehry used the idea of Brancusi’s studio—which was kept intact by the French state per the artist’s bequest—as a metaphor for conceptualizing the dense interplay of forms and textures of the museum’s atrium. Gehry imagined visitors would have an experience similar to entering an informal studio space where different materials and scales form chance relationships suggesting a lively, urban environment.
January 18, 2018
How Brancusi Influenced Frank Gehry’s Design for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
By Ian Jeffrey
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