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architecture ahead of its time

Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum

history

exposition

contacts

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Visitors per Year

10,540 sq. m.

Exhibition Space

24,000 sq. m.

Museum Square

1071 5th Avenue New York, NY 10128

This is an art museum in the USA, created by philanthropist and collector Solomon Guggenheim, located in Manhattan within the museum mile. One of the oldest and most visited collections of contemporary art in the world

ARCHITECTURAL ICON OF THE 20TH CENTURY

creation of the Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim has created a special fund to support contemporary art. An exhibition space was required for the collection of paintings. So it was decided to build a museum.

The baroness, who manages the patron's collection, suggested architect Frank Wright to create an unusual building for storing unique treasures.

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architect Frank Wright

To create huge, but "weightless" reinforced concrete structures, engineers had to use many new, incredible inventions

The architect decided that the works of art would be organically complemented by the mobility and variability of the building in the form of a spiral.

Both the Guggenheim and the architect Wright did not live up to this time.

Thanks to the project F. Wright, the museum immediately caused a furore. Some artists refused to exhibit there, as the building seemed very strange to them.

Today it is difficult to imagine a more popular place to showcase works of modern art.

museum opening

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6 thousand works of famous masters

The basis of the exhibition is collections of works of art by private individuals.

In addition to the collections of Solomon Guggenheim, there are unique collections of his niece Peggy, K. Dreyer, D. Lanza di Bumo, K. Nirendorff, D. Tannhauser

three masterpieces from the collection

Strangely twisted sheets of weather-resistant steel, creating bizarre corridors, express the author's attitude to the variability of time limits.

"The Essence of Time” by Richard Serra

"The Essence of Time" by Richard Serra

Richard Serra

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Andy Warhol. "Turquoise Marilyn”

Andy Warhol.

three masterpieces from the collection

He started it a week after the suicide of the TV star, using silk-screen printing, for which critics wrote a lot of unflattering reviews.

Time often sorts things.Critics have long been forgotten, and tour groups are still drawn to the masterpiece

Andy Warhol's "Marilyn Monroe" Diptych

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Andy Warhol. "Shadows"

Andy Warhol

three masterpieces from the collection

This series consists of 102 canvases. Images of silhouettes of real objects are applied to them with a sponge with paint.

Warhol's "Shadows" series

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interesting temporary exhibitions

Ethel Adnan: A new measure of light

Gillian Waring: Putting on masks

Tannhauser Collection

Branches of the museum

New York - opened in 1959

Venice - opened in 1951

Bilbao - opened in 1997

Berlin - opened in 1997

interesting fact

Еxtraordinary Achitecture
Some painter refused to exhibit in this museum. They considered architecture strong and capable of distracting attention from their work.
The Bramante Staircase
The idea of the architecture of the large atrium is borrowed from the staircase of Bramante from the Vatican Museum.
Start From The Top
The inspection of the exhibits begins from the top floor. They lift the guests up in the elevator, and they go down on their own, along the ramp, admiring the paintings.
Location
One of the conditions of the project was the placement of the building in the city center and near the forest. The place was chosen perfectly - opposite the central park, in the very center of the city.