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While art and architecture often find themselves at odds (see: MoMA v. Tod Williams Billie Tsien or Frank Lloyd Wright v. art<\/a>), Ellsworth Kelly has always been an architect\u2019s artist. \u201cArchitects are usually the first people who understand my work,\u201d the abstract artist \u2014 and TWBT<\/a> and Peter Zellner collaborator<\/a> \/ well-known Frank Gehry pal \u2014 has said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the minimalist painter is an architect himself. The Blanton Museum of Art<\/a> has announced plans to build a 2,715-square-foot free-standing structure at the University of Texas, Austin, that Kelly designed for a private collector in 1986 but never realized.<\/p>\n

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Referred to only as \u201cAustin,\u201d Kelly\u2019s design is embedded with church-like features \u2014 stained-glass windows, a \u201ctotemic\u201d wooden sculpture, and a procession of 14 black-and-white marble panels along the walls \u2014 which draws an easy comparison to the Rothko Chapel at the nearby Menil Collection in Houston. Kelly actually took cues from the Byzantine and Romanesque religious architecture that he encountered while living in Paris in the \u201940s and \u201950s, but never intended to build a chapel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the simplicity and purity of these forms had a great influence on my art,\u201d he explained in the release, \u201cI conceived this project without a religious program. I hope visitors will experience Austin<\/i> as a place of calm and light.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Austin<\/i> marks Kelly’s first-ever building. Munich-based Michael Mayer of the Franz Meyer stained glass studio will fabricate the colored windows, and California-based Peter Carlson will oversee fabrication of the totem and stone panels, according to Artnet<\/a>. While the artist gifted the design to the Blanton, construction begins once the museum has bet its $15 million fundraising goals. They\u2019re currently halfway there, according to the release.<\/p>\n

Image courtesy the Blanton Museum of Art \u00a9 2015 Ellsworth Kelly<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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