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EDOUARD MALINGUE GALLERY
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Hong Kong
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EDOUARD MALINGUE GALLERY
Hong Kong
The project is focusing on the existing space potential and materiality. The concrete ceiling is revealed and the metallic false floor is intentionally kept as it is. It is between these two surfaces that the main element of the project, known as “the wall”, is installed. This pristine white surface is drawn as a unique single line winding in the original space, organising spaces and functions. Proportions and pragmatic constraints dictate its dimension and turns. It doesn’t touch the ceiling so as to emphasise its singularity and underline the fact that an art gallery isn’t only an exhibition space.
To emphasize this concept, the wall is made as thin as possible, a proportion of 300cm high by 8.5cm thick. With such a proportion the wall appears as thin as its original paper model. To achieve it, its structure is installed out of its volume, creating a repetitive pattern of stainless steel poles on one side, resulting in a different architectural expression on each face. The “inner” surface is receiving and displaying art; it is plain and neutral. The “outer” one is functional, integrating furniture, specific display, etc. This duality is the key of the project. It is expressed once, hence revealing itself, at the tension point between the internal/external world and public/private spaces. This trick is used to allow a glimpse inside the inner life of the gallery and re-establish a visual relation with the city.
At the gravity centre of wall’s folds lays the only “enclosed” space, the VIP box. It is a singular object developing its own logic and materiality. The main qualities of that space are “interiority” and “domestic” feelings that are set in order to create a “genius loci”, a world on its own, different from the neutral and functional vocabulary of the exhibition space. The VIP box is “more”; more expressive, more detailed, more “material” by the use of wood and straw… but at the same time more intimate and slow-living. The resulting expression is the one of a welcoming, luxurious, yet sober “cabinet de curiosités”. It superimposes various references and cultures but remains, at first glance, very homogeneous and visually quiet in order to let the presented artworks stand out and be the main “attraction” of the room. This balance between two poles is also expressing the mix of cultures, which is inherently part of the Gallery’s identity.
Finally, a light curtain along the whole periphery finalise the definition of space while allowing a simple and effective control on privacy and natural light.
Note to the Editor:
For futher information, please contact hello@beau.hk. Illustrations attached can be used freely in connection with mention of BEAU Architects, they should be credited as: Illustration by BEAU Architects, exhibition photo should be credit as: INSTALLATION SHOT, LAURENT GRASSO’S SOLO SHOW ‘ELYSÉE’, 21 MARCH TO 30 APRIL 2016, photo by Margot Errante
To emphasize this concept, the wall is made as thin as possible, a proportion of 300cm high by 8.5cm thick. With such a proportion the wall appears as thin as its original paper model. To achieve it, its structure is installed out of its volume, creating a repetitive pattern of stainless steel poles on one side, resulting in a different architectural expression on each face. The “inner” surface is receiving and displaying art; it is plain and neutral. The “outer” one is functional, integrating furniture, specific display, etc. This duality is the key of the project. It is expressed once, hence revealing itself, at the tension point between the internal/external world and public/private spaces. This trick is used to allow a glimpse inside the inner life of the gallery and re-establish a visual relation with the city.
At the gravity centre of wall’s folds lays the only “enclosed” space, the VIP box. It is a singular object developing its own logic and materiality. The main qualities of that space are “interiority” and “domestic” feelings that are set in order to create a “genius loci”, a world on its own, different from the neutral and functional vocabulary of the exhibition space. The VIP box is “more”; more expressive, more detailed, more “material” by the use of wood and straw… but at the same time more intimate and slow-living. The resulting expression is the one of a welcoming, luxurious, yet sober “cabinet de curiosités”. It superimposes various references and cultures but remains, at first glance, very homogeneous and visually quiet in order to let the presented artworks stand out and be the main “attraction” of the room. This balance between two poles is also expressing the mix of cultures, which is inherently part of the Gallery’s identity.
Finally, a light curtain along the whole periphery finalise the definition of space while allowing a simple and effective control on privacy and natural light.
Note to the Editor:
For futher information, please contact hello@beau.hk. Illustrations attached can be used freely in connection with mention of BEAU Architects, they should be credited as: Illustration by BEAU Architects, exhibition photo should be credit as: INSTALLATION SHOT, LAURENT GRASSO’S SOLO SHOW ‘ELYSÉE’, 21 MARCH TO 30 APRIL 2016, photo by Margot Errante
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