Ne risulta una dinamica architettura che presenta sei sfaccettature geometriche, alcune dalla superficie piana, altre inclinate, la cui combinazione dà vita ad una geometria astratta. La risposta dello studio FOA è consistita nella progettazione di una struttura dalla base esagonale che si sviluppa in altezza cambiando forma in maniera graduale, e pressoché impercettibile, a ciascun piano, fino a chiudersi in una copertura quadrata. Il sito destinato ad accogliere il nuovo museo presenta una irregolare geometria triangolare. This floor also contains a gallery designed for new media work and a Lounge, which overlooks the plaza and Uptown. On the top floor the 6,000-square-foot gallery space has no fixed dividing walls, allow¬ing for a variety of configurations. From there, visitors may take MOCA’s grand staircase, a dominant architectural feature of the building, to the upper floors. This space leads to MOCA’s lobby, café and shop, and to a double-height multi-purpose room for public programs and events. Upon entering the building, visitors will find themselves in an atrium where they can see the dynamic shape and structure of the building as it rises. Three of the building’s six facets, one of them clad in transparent glass, flank a public plaza which is to serve as a public gathering place and to link MOCA to Uptown attractions and amenities, including the expanded Cleveland Institute of Art, and new commercial space and residential units. Located on the corner of its triangular site, the building is designed with entrances on all its sides to al¬low it to open along its entire perimeter and be used in many different ways.Ĭlad primarily in mirror-finish black stainless steel, the building envelope reflects its urban surroundings, changing in ap¬pearance with differences in light and weather. All four floors contain areas for either exhibitions or public programs. The four-story building, which anchors the Uptown district, liberates space for a plaza and rises 60 feet from a hexagonal base to a square top, where the primary exhibition space is located. Flexibility is key to enable the museum to display works in a great variety of media and genres. Because MOCA is a non-collecting institution – one of the relatively few such contemporary art museums in the country – its new building does not need to accommodate collection galleries. MOCA Cleveland is a 34,000 ft2 non-collecting contemporary art museum designed to serve as a catalyst for creativ¬ity and growth in a cosmopolitan Cleveland neighborhood, which is home to one of the country’s largest concentrations of cultural, educational and medical institutions. Reflecting on how spaces are constructed, divided, and imagined, they shape viewers’ awareness of their own presence and surroundings.Īdditional funding from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation for the commission.The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Through this array of media and approaches, the artists in Inside Out and From the Ground Up explore our active and variable relationship with the built world. Walead Beshty uses chemical reactivity to alter the surface of materials, while David Altmejd’s work generates vital forces from within. Paintings by Katharina Grosse and Jacqueline Humphries absorb viewers in perceptual ambiguity. Oliver Husain, Corey McCorkle, and William Villalongo offer portals to dream-like other worlds, whereas Jeremy Blake and David Hammons take us to particular places, rich with social and historical layers. Works by Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread, and Haegue Yang signify human presence through objects that bear the subtle marks of use. In contrast to the newness of the architecture, works by Gordon Matta-Clark, Henrique Oliveira, and Jennifer West explore the symbolic potential of aging and soon-to-be-forgotten structures. Inside Out and From the Ground Up calls on viewers to move around, look up close and from afar, and consider multiple perspectives.īarry Underwood’s photographs provide an inner, transitional view of the building throughout its construction, capturing the energy behind its formation. The works on view present the breadth of contemporary practice, from physical constructions and monumentally-scaled painting to minimal gestures and experimental film and video. Considering the building itself as a dynamic sculptural form, the exhibition engages the architecture as both subject and stage. Inside Out and From the Ground Up, the inaugural exhibition at MoCa Cleveland’s new building, spreads throughout the Museum.
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