Museums of the World
Neues Museum Berlin | The Querini Stampalia Foundation
Since October 17th 2009 the Neues Museum has opened its doors to the public once again. ... The museum, listed since 1999 as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, was designed by the architect Friedrich August Stüler between 1843 and 1855. After being badly damaged in the Second World War, the building has been elaborately restored and recreated under the direction of the British star architect David Chipperfield. The architect's aim was to restore the building to its original glory while at the same time taking stringent conservation requirements into account. In the final design, Chipperfield combined St$uuml;ler'S late classicism with contemporary forms and architectural elements. The building now provides a new home for the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection and the Museum of Prehistory and Early History, together with artefacts from the Collection of Classical Antiquities. 2012 marks a special anniversary for the museum: the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti on 6 December 1912. On this occasion the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection will be presenting an extensive special exhibition on the Amarna period at the Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island.http://www.neues-museum.de/
The Querini Stampalia Foundation was founded in 1869 by the will of Count Giovanni, the last descendant of the patrician family Querini Stampalia. The Foundation is located in the very same Querini Stampalia's ancient palace of the sixteenth century, where the family's heritage is preserved: a library containing about 340,000 volumes, with a historic section composed of manuscripts, incunabula and 16th century printed books, and a museum, with furnitures, porcelains, bisques, sculptures and paintings from the 14th to the 20th century. Inside the 16th century residence, at ground level, are the area and the garden, that have been restored in the early 60s by Carlo Scarpa. Recently Mario Botta designed the new access, bookshop, cafeteria and auditorium. The Foundation organizes exhibitions, conferences, meetings, seminars and collaborations with contemporary artists who are invited to interact with the Foundation's collection.
http://www.querinistampalia.it/
Zimoun
Selected Works
Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared ... systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun's minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates. Zimoun, born in Switzerland in 1977, is a self-taught artist based in Bern. His work has been presented in solo and group shows as well as performances in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and South America. Zimoun has been awarded different art prizes and residencies and has served as a guest lecturer. Recent displays of his work include exhibitions at the Nam June Paik Art Center in Korea, the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei; the Ringling Museum of Art, Florida; the Contemporary Art Museum MNAC Bucharest; Art Basel; Galerie Denise ReneĢ Paris; bitforms gallery New York; Vasarely Foundation, Aix en Provance; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein; List Art Center Providence; among others.Compilation video
Detailed CV
Works
Curator:
Charlotte Cotton
Charlotte Cotton is the creative director of Media Space, a partnership between the Science Museum and the ... National Media Museum, UK that will open in London in 2012. Previously, she was the head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, head of programming at The Photographers' Gallery and curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She is the author of the best selling The Photograph as Contemporary Art and the founder of Wordswithoutpictures.orgFor ikonoTV, she chose the Californian video artist Owen Kydd, who bridges the two worlds of photography and video. He uses a photo-documentary style, but with subjects that move only slightly. Presently his practice consists of making these durational photographs. The artist says about his work: "If there is a potential of video for genre or historical picture making, then the form itself, which is a visual duration, should intervene with the photo-documentary subject. Video may have the potential to both record and disrupt the still image - to introduce elements of the unknown to photography. Instead of mythologizing, dominating or imprisoning moments, it can allow subjects to escape the totalizing nature of the still frame, and can create a new distance from the viewer. (..) With cameras that are now both video and photographic, the line between the two types of image is immediatly blurred with the turn of a dial. I am interested in making video that uses the codes and signifiers of American Documentary Photography, to test this boundary and investigate a new medium's potential to adapt to communities that are in flux."