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View of free-spanning shelf supporting five vitrines
Bottom Left: View to reconstructed Pavilion de l'Esprit
Nouveau
Bottom Right: View of main gallery |
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L'Esprit
Nouveau: Purism in Paris Installation
Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Anderson and Hammer Galleries
11,700 square feet
In April 2001 Levin & Associates designed the installation of
the exhibit L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918-25. The exhibition,
organized by Carol S. Eliel, the museum's curator of modern and contemporary
art, revisited the origins of the modernist movement that made a
lasting change in art and architecture and examined the art and writings
of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), Fernand Leger and Amedee
Ozenfabt. The approach to the design of the installation included
the incorporation of the main tenets of the Purist philosophy, which
focuses on geometric planes and a machine aesthetic.
Much like Corbusier's architecture, the structural columns in LACMA's
gallery are expressed and used to organized the walls and to orient
the full scale reconstruction of the main room of Le Corbusier's
Pavilion de l'Esprit Nouveau. A reference to the machine age aesthetic
appeared in the design of a 27 foot, free span shelf, which supported
five identical vitrines. The vitrines displayed fifteen issues of
the periodical LíEsprit Nouveau on stainless steel cradles. |
