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Blueprint at Storefront for Art and Architecture

Blueprint at Storefront for Art and Architecture
© Iwan Baan

BLUEPRINT AT STOREFRONT FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE

SO-IL

ARCHITECTS
So-il

LOCATION
New York, United States

CATEGORY
Installation

AREA
80.0 m²

YEAR
2015

PHOTOGRAPHS
Iwan Baan

COLLABORATORS (FABRICATION CONSULTANT)
Atlantic Shrinkwrap, Dustin Hoover

Text description provided by architect.

Curated by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, and artist Sebastiaan Bremer, Blueprint at Storefront for Art and Architecture invited artists and architects to reflect on the theme of origination through the medium of the blueprint.

Blueprint at Storefront for Art and Architecture
© Iwan Baan
Blueprint at Storefront for Art and Architecture
© Iwan Baan

The notion of the blueprint - a nostalgic medium - implies a plan and intention. The show is an assessment of the past and suggests a trajectory for the future.

Realized as part of the exhibition, our installation shrink-wraps the gallery’s façade of varied and irregular openings, transforming the Holl- Acconci exterior into one continuous and undulating surface. The resulting interior provides an intimate space for the viewer to see the mind of the artist.

Blueprint at Storefront for Art and Architecture
© Iwan Baan
Blueprint at Storefront for Art and Architecture
© Iwan Baan

For the installation, we appropriated a “mothballing” technique. The technique to “put things away” is typically used in a range of applications from suspending work on construction sites to preserving ships, and tanks.

For Blueprint, we use the technique to reevaluate the original intent of the architecture of Storefront: an activator and agitator of the public realm.

Blueprint at Storefront for Art and Architecture
© Iwan Baan
Blueprint at Storefront for Art and Architecture
© Iwan Baan

Rather than conserve, this shrink-wrap reinvigorates the existing Holl- Acconci installation and reveals the activities happening behind its permeable skin.

Blueprint at Storefront for Art and Architecture
© Iwan Baan
Blueprint at Storefront for Art and Architecture
© Iwan Baan


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