Ulf Meyer filed this report and spoke with Cook.
Peter Cook City Landscapes opened on January 21, with the famed architect and founding member of Archigram in attendance. In this way they can be developed as roughly screened indications, texts and film sequences, which radiate far into the urban area and thus, the blue blister of Graz with a screen of immense size makes an art gallery. 21.1.22 - 8.5.22 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art invites you to a press conference on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Peter Cook: City Landscapes. A big Peter Cook retrospective is now on display at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebk, Denmark. Each light ring functions as a pixel, which can be served by a central computer. 930 40Watt fluorescent rings are embedded in the 900 m2 outer skin, with the illumination level of each one being step-lessly variable between 0 and 100%. Beyond that the "communicating outer skin" offers a possible drilling platform for art projects, which brings up for discussion the dialogue between media and area. BIX projects accompany different exhibitions and are not transported into the public area, also the direct environment is defined and shaped.
PETER COOK ARCHITECT MUSUEM SKIN
BIX, a name which consists of the words "Big" and "pixels" is the acrylic glass skin of the eastern side of the building toward the Mur and city center and represents an oversize urban screen, which serves as an instrument for artistic productions. The BIX Facade of the museum represents a singular fusion from architecture and New Media and is based on a concept of the Berliner architects realities:united. Kunsthaus Graz implements an innovative concept, which offers various possibilities in its galleries to fulfill the high curatorial requirements of contemporary exhibitions. Its exclusive purpose is to present and procure contemporary art productions. It doesn't collect new pieces, it maintains no permanent exhibitions and has no research establishments.
Kunsthaus Graz was developed as an institution to stage international exhibitions of multidisciplinary, modern and contemporary art from the 1960s to the present day. Thus, the gigantic building affectionately called the "Friendly Alien" by its creators Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, in form and material, stands out consciously against the surrounding baroque roof landscape with its red clay roofing tiles, but nevertheless integrates the facade of the 1847 iron house.Īrchitecture, design, new media, internet art, film, and photography are united under one roof. The team of architects used an innovative stylistic idiom, known as blob architecture within the historical ambiance of the Murvorstadt. Its unusual form differs radically from conventional exhibition contexts, many of which maintain the traditions of the modernist "White Cube". Its exhibition program specializes in contemporary art of the last four decades. The new structure is connected by means of two bridges with the ∞iseneshaus, a listed 19th-century cast-iron building that has been rehabilitated and converted to house the museum shop, an electronic media centre, administrative offices, etc.The Kunsthaus Graz, Grazer Kunsthaus, or Graz Art Museum was built as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2003 and has since become an architectural landmark in Graz, Austria. The skin provides protection of the building from the external environment, allows some natural light and outside views, and also acts as an electronic display system that can be programmed to show text, fixed images, animations or video. A big Peter Cook retrospective is now on display at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark. These two decks are raised above ground and wrapped in a continuous double-curved surface that spans over the upper deck, down the sides as well as under the belly of the lower deck, thus blurring the customary typological distinction between roof, walls and floor. The general design concept is a simple one, consisting essentially of two main exhibition spaces: a top deck which offers partial natural lighting provided by a number of north-facing skylights (referred to as nozzles) and an artificially lit lower deck used mainly for multimedia installations.
The museum does not have a permanent art collection and so the building is designed internally as a flexible multipurpose platform that can be reconfigured for each temporary exhibition. Yet, paradoxically, the project was conceived to fit quite smoothly, in terms of its scale and urban activities, within its surrounding environment, hence its nickname of the friendly alien. The buildings external appearance is highly iconic with its striking biomorphic geometry and blue acrylic skin that establishes a deliberate contrast with this historical fabric. Its remarkably well-preserved historical centre, dating primarily from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, has resulted in its classification by UNESCO as a World Heritage City. Located in the centre of Graz, this museum for contemporary art was opened in September 2003, the year in which the city was designated the ∞uropean Cultural Capital.
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