Triple Bond: Essays on Art, Architecture, and Museums
Valiz Vis-à-Vis
Wouter Davidts
Valiz, 2017
€24,99
Triple Bond is not a book about museum architecture. That is, not only. While the fourteen essays gathered in this volume focus on the architecture of museums built over the past five decades, they also concentrate on larger developments in art within that same timeframe. Likewise Triple Bond is not exclusively about art and architecture either. Even though it deals with the dialogue between the disciplines and practices of art and architecture, it contemplates just as much the changes within that very institution where the dialogue has been taking place most intensely: the museum.
With this collection of essays Wouter Davidts advances the tenet that art, architecture, and the museum are engaged in a complex yet inevitably historical relationship with one another, that is, they are triply bound to each other. Triple Bond is divided into four parts: Platforms, Artists, Buildings, and Exhibitions. It contains case studies of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Temporary Contemporary, P.S. 1, as well as the Antwerp Museum aan de Stroom (MAS). It offers in-depth analyses of the understanding and use of museum and exhibition space by artists such as Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Robert Smithson, and Gordon Matta-Clark. Finally, it critically assesses contemporary responses to the spaces of the museum by the artist collective SUPERFLEX at the Van Abbemuseum and by the assorted artists participating in the Unilever Series at Tate Modern.
ISBN: 9789078088493
