Program Harvard University has commissioned a an art gallery which will house the works of one specific contemporary German artist, Dieter Roth. Site The gallery will be located down the street from the famous Fogg Museum of Art and across the street from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts by Le Corbusier.Process The work of Dieter Roth emphasizes the understanding that nothing can remain the same forever. The work features food items during their various stages of decay. Roth believed in preservation but was strictily against restoration. The building is meant to reflet the notion of movement and change. Roth’s body of work touches on almost every media of art and ranges greatly in size. The gallery spaces in the art house have been designed to move and change. Various smaller units can move freely to create vast, open volumes or smaller, more intimate volumes as needed.This move not only allows for constantly changing exhibits, it also embodies the deeper themes within Dieter Roth’s work.
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