tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77848934409342664282024-03-19T11:08:24.442+02:00THE ARAB GUGGENHEIM MUSEUMa Nikos Charalambidis's projectMirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-32051217055819775842013-03-08T16:28:00.000+02:002013-03-08T16:43:12.890+02:00Hollow Airport Museum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11493519779960762945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-14749283717280210962008-10-04T12:54:00.003+03:002009-11-03T22:51:07.286+02:00CΠΟΡΤ<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjon3ChTmkOBmhNgzr6FfIevP36nPnx1MZM9bP1A-Z7AKN6g566Le_kE4JHYcmiEHKIwRo5ONWsHw4Ks15svDTqtoTbBzH_8XVGMu1bAACj0EZft69176Z4uMaAIbl8sK0rxtXaeIXrHvw/s1600-h/CPORT_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjon3ChTmkOBmhNgzr6FfIevP36nPnx1MZM9bP1A-Z7AKN6g566Le_kE4JHYcmiEHKIwRo5ONWsHw4Ks15svDTqtoTbBzH_8XVGMu1bAACj0EZft69176Z4uMaAIbl8sK0rxtXaeIXrHvw/s400/CPORT_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253236135669275058" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-HfK0OzV-k_hyphenhyphenKfRaF79DOInnhJ3KXoF0_FdTkJJQnwwr81NnDXCl2oT2fdBblo07d4dHYYmfQjYx_TFMdC5A5fmBlbUy_H3bUeGmFyyzYC3swRECF9GmgNIKTKukgqbvC16OYVPl2OE/s1600-h/CPORT_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-HfK0OzV-k_hyphenhyphenKfRaF79DOInnhJ3KXoF0_FdTkJJQnwwr81NnDXCl2oT2fdBblo07d4dHYYmfQjYx_TFMdC5A5fmBlbUy_H3bUeGmFyyzYC3swRECF9GmgNIKTKukgqbvC16OYVPl2OE/s400/CPORT_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253236135031198290" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikMY4Y3leryhXBuN4AGhgA8JWJEfMtJeQnMskNyPLJvgKNWLC1pM0nnwI_Mz0fMbfe6cXbW933d881fbudK36b9udrSH-aoY_INuTOjU2oDEKQ5cTeYVCLedhAXB4ahdDwFzA7Wcv8mgc/s1600-h/gil_bed_gym.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikMY4Y3leryhXBuN4AGhgA8JWJEfMtJeQnMskNyPLJvgKNWLC1pM0nnwI_Mz0fMbfe6cXbW933d881fbudK36b9udrSH-aoY_INuTOjU2oDEKQ5cTeYVCLedhAXB4ahdDwFzA7Wcv8mgc/s400/gil_bed_gym.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253236136093466802" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />The team is developing the new auditorium for the arab guggenheim museum, preliminary design for your eyes only.MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-15351318778316522732008-09-12T19:41:00.007+03:002008-09-20T23:19:08.753+03:00At the Centre Pompidou<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODBRyAwrC1FbmdsGvvF__BZF7m9tgJaV60uQTNuPFngOlAb1InOlouuEZxkHG5EEi9hIN0o5ZJb0CorvEVmGjmm2I6StEcjE2XAbhtRwIlRcJzm2oSE1nbM0M_2ks6_kG1kIKj0Ppb8Y/s1600-h/Ricardo2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODBRyAwrC1FbmdsGvvF__BZF7m9tgJaV60uQTNuPFngOlAb1InOlouuEZxkHG5EEi9hIN0o5ZJb0CorvEVmGjmm2I6StEcjE2XAbhtRwIlRcJzm2oSE1nbM0M_2ks6_kG1kIKj0Ppb8Y/s400/Ricardo2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245178896185862562" border="0" /></a><br /><br />On the 26th of August,2008, the president of the Centre Pompidou, M. Alain Seban<br />inaugurated the exhibition of Nicos Charalambidis.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAKgMdB5cRk06uuMsGnff1RKAT6rSqpXACM8t0lljsZ6-5XG9jN0mgoJ-5j15CJ7FLvVFghjTRS5lLFm5F10AcgynHbCUp3QrclJuHvmzzQwXM9iKp9mUcZrChYlOXXhli2O0VKoyNd0k/s1600-h/PRES.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAKgMdB5cRk06uuMsGnff1RKAT6rSqpXACM8t0lljsZ6-5XG9jN0mgoJ-5j15CJ7FLvVFghjTRS5lLFm5F10AcgynHbCUp3QrclJuHvmzzQwXM9iKp9mUcZrChYlOXXhli2O0VKoyNd0k/s400/PRES.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245177795275721106" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO7XFAeBm0f4yk1BphgwvU6c5s3MeYmVqXvm5mj_sUZG1hDb-FaocylHaxCI1ZYNWy3BUa4rvAlCLgsBo20jVcXXFggl33smEZgzzRrByOc5SpeUc8cw_n9c8d1ZKZN-ZGKs7b5rPtetM/s1600-h/PRES.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO7XFAeBm0f4yk1BphgwvU6c5s3MeYmVqXvm5mj_sUZG1hDb-FaocylHaxCI1ZYNWy3BUa4rvAlCLgsBo20jVcXXFggl33smEZgzzRrByOc5SpeUc8cw_n9c8d1ZKZN-ZGKs7b5rPtetM/s400/PRES.1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245177800167640098" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiouqcz0uTALkn0lIvDf1d4I2qiJ8cEuA7K-ROJqWzQoHMPviyfyi8gynLDFiOybDkmwgULBD6aCQVfZlJD5RXa6Ci37lAdVuQsvot-7zGcoObkG2va-OzBLWdmyZQg7xnc0yavJRSOBxY/s1600-h/DSCN0889.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiouqcz0uTALkn0lIvDf1d4I2qiJ8cEuA7K-ROJqWzQoHMPviyfyi8gynLDFiOybDkmwgULBD6aCQVfZlJD5RXa6Ci37lAdVuQsvot-7zGcoObkG2va-OzBLWdmyZQg7xnc0yavJRSOBxY/s400/DSCN0889.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245177803984037842" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqaUhWK6kIP2YemlH1kIOtK4cgF-zvjb6GjYD2EfxwfWQi8Ln5CLTHejaLUdWeaN-5UXZssW7zEebZlnfx_wrXN0R_6qFXMGiXlkcSorINWgpBh5HaPjlZ6ujQ8FLhfUYMvT7N3qI3Y8c/s1600-h/presid.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqaUhWK6kIP2YemlH1kIOtK4cgF-zvjb6GjYD2EfxwfWQi8Ln5CLTHejaLUdWeaN-5UXZssW7zEebZlnfx_wrXN0R_6qFXMGiXlkcSorINWgpBh5HaPjlZ6ujQ8FLhfUYMvT7N3qI3Y8c/s400/presid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245177810766272338" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiVnpebOkKHTFvWbx_VMlR17K-pvtbzIqazqLyxx_-bMD1jAWy4goHBB0yfk3Hw0ej3BUeaCB_cmYIwrIxishVJ1OIFR36BTwRZ9g8XZ-3-eFH1nokqWb1fVTMtGF_4FD1gUiEWloImaw/s1600-h/presidpidou.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiVnpebOkKHTFvWbx_VMlR17K-pvtbzIqazqLyxx_-bMD1jAWy4goHBB0yfk3Hw0ej3BUeaCB_cmYIwrIxishVJ1OIFR36BTwRZ9g8XZ-3-eFH1nokqWb1fVTMtGF_4FD1gUiEWloImaw/s400/presidpidou.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245177815253701522" border="0" /></a>MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-9993054331877657382008-09-11T19:10:00.003+03:002008-09-11T19:25:48.865+03:00Kathimerini's article<span style="font-weight:bold;">«<a href="http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_2_10/09/2008_284102">Προστατευμένη ζώνη</a></span>» στο Μπομπούρ<br />Το νέο πρότζεκτ του Κύπριου Νίκου Χαραλαμπίδη στηρίζεται στη νεότερη ιστορία της πατρίδας του καλλιτέχνηMirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-74205590248353116322008-08-29T14:00:00.002+03:002013-02-09T10:54:11.836+02:00THE LINK TO THE INTERACTIVE SITE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The interactive flash site, at Centre Pompidou<br />
<a href="http://artsivistes.free.fr/ledrabarricade/interactive/main.swf">http://artsivistes.free.fr/ledrabarricade/interactive/main.swf</a></div>
MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-78050443994612623422008-06-15T21:57:00.003+03:002008-06-15T22:03:12.584+03:00the Arab Guggenheim reaches Bejing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDlOZmrYm4ICbiaEjr_6p7KSVhhJbLjQ5Jh4ovDl01OcTQUsL9B5hfUxc9F8KHyqJGgMqJgD1HA_58OBqu7MERepu7ASuuOTD7sRgwTQRhYezp2ravlCIdbgkufKDoDRMMDF4lRQ6R9ew/s1600-h/DSC06600.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 530px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDlOZmrYm4ICbiaEjr_6p7KSVhhJbLjQ5Jh4ovDl01OcTQUsL9B5hfUxc9F8KHyqJGgMqJgD1HA_58OBqu7MERepu7ASuuOTD7sRgwTQRhYezp2ravlCIdbgkufKDoDRMMDF4lRQ6R9ew/s400/DSC06600.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212185739353842898" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCq_Z2zHMW4fSNuI-FUZprVc2_HtTRKgmbnI-eBEAn16Ka3pofA8AUpiVDlYFc0NMlxdL8fVzT1mFYKgOOEjMUrITbQQ1KZVOQr4Uesw4Umliu84oIHwubudMdgsNXyGaqrS6qRgwwigg/s1600-h/China1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCq_Z2zHMW4fSNuI-FUZprVc2_HtTRKgmbnI-eBEAn16Ka3pofA8AUpiVDlYFc0NMlxdL8fVzT1mFYKgOOEjMUrITbQQ1KZVOQr4Uesw4Umliu84oIHwubudMdgsNXyGaqrS6qRgwwigg/s400/China1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212185360687936722" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhqDc_09wQ5kpg5CdsQCw4uODmHB8VetjLZY6EuXUPeHVukrEyP3VdFI_YFCCafl_bsCZP755ADHXHQMAxS4MBae0LPTpXFCTXtjJs0t1stznnuc6B5wP2khv3rtbprADHPnptL9lNx4/s1600-h/DSC06619.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKhqDc_09wQ5kpg5CdsQCw4uODmHB8VetjLZY6EuXUPeHVukrEyP3VdFI_YFCCafl_bsCZP755ADHXHQMAxS4MBae0LPTpXFCTXtjJs0t1stznnuc6B5wP2khv3rtbprADHPnptL9lNx4/s400/DSC06619.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212185374777430162" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjifeA7pxsouhKTcLwWKhRqm9wyDVBrwqY-W7-IGUQlA50_C7xA-2aEgKLCeIj-YqPNgh05tWEKbJaGh9xaor9vFeej3WYh6JDiee6AtX0Lec0t8vGuZoyCCtV4piTPAvY3nSKEWSu5Xbc/s1600-h/DSC06603.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjifeA7pxsouhKTcLwWKhRqm9wyDVBrwqY-W7-IGUQlA50_C7xA-2aEgKLCeIj-YqPNgh05tWEKbJaGh9xaor9vFeej3WYh6JDiee6AtX0Lec0t8vGuZoyCCtV4piTPAvY3nSKEWSu5Xbc/s400/DSC06603.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212185391833549842" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4iiLZa8Q8IIk-N9BiyobdOjZvXs4DsiEbtIS14VU9irw8IOEU1jL9yNUkbPZqP_cxbDjwId3KwKDTNkAWRzfB2D5GEvJh79cTuZx84xKvjXdYMUUGCkKXbGoEi2Gv-hvLcHmG1rkaUE/s1600-h/DSC06636.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4iiLZa8Q8IIk-N9BiyobdOjZvXs4DsiEbtIS14VU9irw8IOEU1jL9yNUkbPZqP_cxbDjwId3KwKDTNkAWRzfB2D5GEvJh79cTuZx84xKvjXdYMUUGCkKXbGoEi2Gv-hvLcHmG1rkaUE/s400/DSC06636.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212185404760519986" border="0" /></a>MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-20636732030121663092008-06-13T22:53:00.019+03:002013-02-09T10:47:30.229+02:00The Arab Guggenheim Museum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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of the main tasks of the Guggenheim Museum building and its annexes around the
world is to function as emblematic icons of the powerfulness American culture
and of the influential capitalistic global empire. Being in the process of
building the Middle East Arab Guggenheim Museum, we tried
not to be seduced by this kind of architecture. Practically, we tried to follow
a different course of action, having the conviction that a glass
façade from the house of the project’s founder could be more appropriate to
give an initial direction to shape the model and the character of the
building. In his installations Nicos Charalambidis often uses pieces
of furniture and structural elements of his apartment, emphasising the
ambiguous borders between private and public space. Till today, he has
constructed a number of glass facades of different types that being dismantled
from his apartment have served as the keystone for his large scale multilayered
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Biennale, a group of students from the Athens School of Fine Arts manipulate
one of Charalambidis’ glass facades (image above) as the significant pattern
which could symbolically define the design of the glass facades of a Ham’s
annex in Beirut, suggesting an alternative kind of building to play the role of
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">A scenario of a
transportable museum.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In 2004,Rauche,
a seaside district, not far from the town centre, was considered, the perfect
location, to host HAM’s activities. Not only because of its unique
location and magnificent view over Mediterranean sea, but also because of being
a space charged with the Lebanese historical past. During French colonialism
the whole area of Rauche had been the site of a French military camp, which
in 1980 had been burnt to the ground by a fire caused by a group of
Lebanese partisans.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The architect’s
proposal focuses on a version of the Mies van der Rohe monument, which he had
designed for the city of Berlin (1926) as a memorial to Karl Liebknecht and
Rosa Luxemburg and had been dismantled by Hitler in 1933. According to the
storyline of this new version of the Arab Guggenheim Museum, the monument is
transformed into a transportable building to house its activities. After a
period of two year’s program, the structure will be transported to another Arab
town in the world Cyprus for another two years and subsequently to other. Due
to the troubled political situation of the Middle East -and the nearby region
-the founder and the shareholders of Guggenheim, have approved the architect’s
idea of a portable, wandering museum. The particular Lego-type design of the
legendary Mies monument gave to the architect the ideal solution to carrying
out the project. Inspired by the constructivist outline of the monument and
following its structural boxes as a pattern, a radical building has been formed
out of revolutionary ecological materials, which could provide an exceptionally
light result to the whole structure.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In case of war
in the host country, the boxes of the museum can be deconstructed and
transported to another Arab country allowing the Arab Guggenheim to continue
its cultural tasks. Following a premeditated rearrangement of the boxes, the
museum can easily be rearticulated at a significant location, preferably
incorporating remnants of the past from each country, buildings, monuments,
antiquities etc. In Beirut, for a case in point, the main building of the
museum has been surrounded by a group of out buildings which have been built
following the original plans of the demolished quarters of the French military
camp; bringing back to life memories of an era that left its indelible mark on
Lebanese people. The long central buildings of the camp that in the past had
housed the administration and the commandants offices have been converted into
a series of versatile workshops for local and invited artists, while the
soldiers barracks have been converted into artists’ studios.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The construction
of the museum had to be such that it could be easily dismantled and
transported. It had to be light and easy to reconstruct in any case. The
architect thought of using raw materials that could be found in the local area
and ended up using sun-dried cow dung along with mud, for the outer skin of the
museum. These brick textured panels will be set on metal unfolding structures
bound together and based on metal columns and sun dried brick.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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central buildings in the camp that served as administration and commander’s
offices in the past, have been converted into a series of versatile workshops
for local and invited foreign artists, while the soldiers’ barracks have been
converted into a block of studios for the artists. The architect has played
upon the former French ruins by creating baths, a swimming pool, changing rooms
and an Arabic hammam by excavating the ground, with the guidance of a geologist
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Thanks to the
portability of the museum the structure will be able to peregrinate through the
Arab states, raising its cultural influence and protecting the exhibits in case
of conflict.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">This series of
constructions rest on foundations of local history and of course on the daily
routine of Arab life. All the excavations and erections that have taken place
within the site have been supervised by a special geologist; in direct
collaboration with the architect they have confronted the complexity of creating
dykes wending through a sea of rocks and connecting with one another through a
path made of concrete. The composition inevitably immerses itself in the
sea. The galleries of the museum have been camouflaged behind a ramp and a
mesh-rope glass façade. The latter dispels the direct penetration of sunlight,
whilst the ramp bridges the path of the procedure from the inception of
the concept and its creations within the workshops, to the final phase of
its display in the museum, a refreshment café both for the visitors and the
artists has been molded to follow the site’s contour lines.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">On top of the
building there are two main units of great importance. The Guggenheim
Foundation, apart from having the group of the assistant buildings surrounding
the museum, functioning as workshops or studios for artists, thought of having
a similar unit incorporated in the main building. This unit’s differentiation
is based upon the focus on multimedia practices and computer lab facilities’
usage. Apart from the equipment offered by the museum, educational
programs/seminars on new technology techniques and program use are also going
to take place. This happens so as to stimulate local artists’ interest
concerning contemporary mediums for art production and encourage them to produce
artworks under this new aspect, maintaining though their own distinct local
character a point of view.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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on top is a cinema/conference-room. It has a capacity of four-hundred people
and it is expected to host movie and video festivals, as well as conferences
and speeches. It is also going to be used within the framework of educational
programs that the museum organizes for schools and universities.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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top units (artists’ multimedia lab and cinema/conference-room) and some
other dark rooms for video installations, the remaining 1st, 2nd and 3d floors
are made of semi-transparent glass. The rest of the surfaces consist of
wooden components. As for the various divisions inside the museum, partitions
made out of compressed paper will be used to achieve as light a result as
possible. The inner spaces of the museum, particularly the ground level, can be
organized to suit specific exhibitions using the compressed paper
partitions to create spaces for individual exhibits or group of works.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The “Malevich
construction”, located at the center of the museum, incorporates versatile
functions. It is a portable multi-store unit of buildings includes a
library, a retail store, a workspace for the students’ educational
programs (tables, audio-visual equipment etc.), a Starbucks coffee store*,
an internet room, toilets and a lift. All this multifunctional area has
come out of a painting by Kazimir Malevich and the visitor will have the
opportunity</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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company, as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR), offered to build
a coffee shop into the museum and offer its products at cost prices. Also, in
collaboration with the museum, Starbucks is collecting, through its stores all
over the world, English books in order to provide local students with such
an educational material (literature, art, philosophy, English).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-74492324344518918592008-06-01T16:30:00.009+03:002009-11-03T23:30:17.164+02:00Rebuilding borders…<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje2PibTWL9Emz_2GGzBTNw_-yzV_LjXIC1St74vvf9EOCXR7Ko21r5223nsii2WiP6LUv_8xzUDnC0_a9DjRi_A4E_nd3Z64l40BIOdXxtowwuekuAhtbQakEaI160R1Qkol0f5imNDg0/s1600-h/image001.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje2PibTWL9Emz_2GGzBTNw_-yzV_LjXIC1St74vvf9EOCXR7Ko21r5223nsii2WiP6LUv_8xzUDnC0_a9DjRi_A4E_nd3Z64l40BIOdXxtowwuekuAhtbQakEaI160R1Qkol0f5imNDg0/s400/image001.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212570543229267058" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14;">Rebuilding borders…</span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">In the last biennial of <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Sao Paulo</st1:city></st1:place>, Charalambidis’ dominant piece was a </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">versatile, multiple-use platform, floating by the help of four helicopter’s propellers and of some helium filled barrels. The barrels originated from three barricades on the Green Line in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region></st1:place>, the buffer zone that divides the island in two, Turkish and Greek as a coincidence of a violent war in 1974. The artist, following a painstaking, insistent and often painful process of struggling with United Nations’ bureaucracy and the local authorities, had finally the permission to dismantle three parts of the dividing wall, in order to transfer the barricade barrels to the Biennale, of which the title was<b> “How to Live Together”</b>. Moreover, he had convinced the military forces to provide him with a group of soldiers to participate in his antimilitaristic project. It was a real hard plan, which was getting even more complicated especially due to the fact that the whole operation had to be realised </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">during the war in the neighboring Lebanon and in a period while Cyprus was in the process of accepting more and more evacuees; thousands of Lebanese people, who were arriving at the island seeking out for a refuge. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">In Sao Paolo Another group of Brazilian soldiers had received the barrels in order to set them inside the emblematic Niemeyer’s biennale building. Altering their militaristic role, the Cypriot soldiers had shifted their duty of protecting/guarding the wall in dismantling it. The floating platform had served as a stage for a series of happenings and performances playing the role of an alternative carnival float. In one of these performances the group of the Brazilian soldiers had accompanied a team of samba girls during their dancing, while Brazilian drummers had been playing Samba on the dismantling barricade barrels, converting them into musical instruments. Samba, which originated from </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">traditional African dances,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"> was the representative hymn to freedom for the African slaves in</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"> Brasil</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">…</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">The fancy costumes of the dancers had been made out of hieratic byzantine vestmens, like those that archbishop Makarios, the first elected president of the Cypriot Democracy, used to wear.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">His participation in “How to Live Together” biennial gained the admire of his artist fellows, visitors and art critics from the first day of the event. The samba platform was so<span> </span>crowded during the opening, that I had to make gran efforts,struggling among the spectators, in order to take some photos, like the one below (pag.3) with Ambramovic, chattering with the artist while watching<span> </span>the performance…</span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Oy3qBFbHy7lt7weTiTDe2YmnXo-d37zMpIOO1Pa03UxUOGT6eJYFNe6qdmO4_Tdyg1yCRBUIX3SkEgqr3Vb7hK4CgP58HSRloiL42qPFMslphwQmHiQMkgOviV7y3xycwCs0ieAXio8/s1600-h/image004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Oy3qBFbHy7lt7weTiTDe2YmnXo-d37zMpIOO1Pa03UxUOGT6eJYFNe6qdmO4_Tdyg1yCRBUIX3SkEgqr3Vb7hK4CgP58HSRloiL42qPFMslphwQmHiQMkgOviV7y3xycwCs0ieAXio8/s400/image004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212565957211150402" border="0" /></a> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">Of course, that great success it’s not an easy incident for a “third world” originated artist, who was participating at the biennale completely on his own forces, without the support of a gallery, a commissioner or even a curator. However, his success doesn’t personally surprise me or those who know the radical character of his activities; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">In fact, I’m one among those who strongly believe that he would surely be one of the most known pioneer figures of the nineties if he wouldn’t himself repeatedly refused to play the game of art system, believing that political art should find alternative ways to act. Even if, in a very young age, he had drawn near international establishment and recognition through his participations</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"> in significant </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">exhibitions, he had never accepted to collaborate with powerful galleries. Thus, when the Dakis Ioannou collection, had presented his work (soon after his first participation in Venice biennale in 1997) in the glamorous “Global Vision” five artists show, with Chris Offili, Kcho, Kara Walker and Yinka Shonibare, Charalambidis was somewhere across the Ireland’s borders, sticking up anonymous posters of the Queen Elisabeth (photo below) propagandizing his project “The Arab Guggenheim Museum”.<span> </span>Actually another version of his Rumbling/Rambling Museum, “The Arab Guggenheim Museum” was also the conceptual framework of one of the other</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"> large-scale emblematic constructions</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"> that </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">accompanied the Samba platform in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Sao<span> </span>Paulo</st1:city></st1:place>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Charalambidis envisaged his “<st1:placename st="on">Arab</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Guggenheim</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Museum</st1:placetype>” as an itinerant group of carnival floats that could participate in carnival processions in <st1:place st="on">Europe</st1:place> (or other crucial spots of the Western world) as a cultural intervention by artists coming from Arab countries. As a travelling archive, this carnival ark, could distribute also, information about everyday life and the culture of these countries, functioning as a political manifesto or an “autonomous protesting machine”.<span> </span>In Sao Paulo, the museum took the form of a large prison following the outline of Mies van der Rohe Monument to November<b> </b>Revolution, on which a team of architecture students were participating in a series of workshops, wearing orange uniforms, as a subtly reference to the Guantanamo prisoners (images on page 6). <span><br /></span></span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghlxK_tgsObub-OsIlEUa75H3xpxWfbpRq8il3rySRfnlvAAnEZj9K05qGEbteNBms_aYsAAIkL7tNsU9OSXLyvCO30gkDbfLwlqnXntgL2LfvnsHJHxASL6T3y6jyvCaKFzNTYuFREO8/s1600-h/image006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghlxK_tgsObub-OsIlEUa75H3xpxWfbpRq8il3rySRfnlvAAnEZj9K05qGEbteNBms_aYsAAIkL7tNsU9OSXLyvCO30gkDbfLwlqnXntgL2LfvnsHJHxASL6T3y6jyvCaKFzNTYuFREO8/s400/image006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212565963979534370" border="0" /></a> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 19.3pt 0.0001pt 18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">Ambramovic whispering: <i>you made the real thing</i> to Charalambidis. She was certainly<span> </span><o:p></o:p><br />only one of the many artists who were fascinated by Carnival Pause. Alfons Hug the German curatot of the ex Sao </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">P</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">aolo biennale was probably the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">first one who had distinguished publicly, even from the day before the opening </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">Charalambidis’political intervention; while </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">Rafal</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">Niemojewski</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">at his report in </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">Art</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">Forum</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;"> (19-10-2006) had declaired : </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">The biennial’s set piece was definitely Nikos Charalambidis’s <i>Social Gym</i>, 2006, a carnival float filled with soldiers and samba dancers, while the neighbouring installation by Thomas Hirschhorn looked blunt and generic (and was, for me, the show’s biggest disappointment)…</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 19.3pt 0.0001pt 18pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">Recently,</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">I met Charalambidis in <st1:country-region st="on">China</st1:country-region>, during the opening of “Trans-experiences 2008” at 798 Space in <st1:city st="on">Beijing</st1:city>, where he presented his “<st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Hollow</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Airport</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></st1:place>”. Is <span> </span>actually another activistic guise of the “Arab Guggenheim”, in a form of an <st1:placename st="on">International</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Art</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">School</st1:placename>, <span> </span>located at the vacant building of the International Airport of Nicosia at the Green Line in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The artist told me about his new “Carnival Float”, a replica of the <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Ledra Street</st1:address></st1:street> barricade (the first barricade that officially</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">came down after 44 years) which is going to travel throughout <st1:place st="on">Europe</st1:place> to be connected with emblematic buildings and central museums. Rebuilding the barricade, Charalambidis stresses once again the message that the solution to the Cyprus problem, yet needs a lot of<span> </span>good willing steps, coming not only from the two communities of the island but mostly from the powerful countries and the policies that have been involved in the problem years before the real division of the island. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">The travelling replica of Ledra’s bariccade is going to carry a plasma TV present-ing the enthusiasm of Turks and Greeks with which they had welcomed the dismantling of Ledra’s part of the wall, a couple of months ago. <span> </span>In parallel, the visitors could be informed about the activities of the H.A.M. (<st1:placename st="on">Hollow</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Airport</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype st="on">Museum</st1:placetype>)<span> </span>and its <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Art</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">School</st1:placename></st1:place> of which the first team of teachers has been already fixed by: Mounir Fatmi, Gulsum Karamustafa, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;">Wafa Hourani, Pablo Leon de la Barra and Eric Valette.. Atlas group is also another team that has been included in the Museum’s schedule for next spring.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvQGwGtB0Hmp7ftsELLviufAjW-pop_34Hc2vCw93rAehlXMsPPey6V0qkiLpLbWgYpTZMcphE09Vu6vdsqs4PMqpePPNhAdQ-0-_hK779NVXuj1vmwoQiutbjiyqz8GqSikRpzlSvef0/s1600-h/image008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 607px; height: 852px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvQGwGtB0Hmp7ftsELLviufAjW-pop_34Hc2vCw93rAehlXMsPPey6V0qkiLpLbWgYpTZMcphE09Vu6vdsqs4PMqpePPNhAdQ-0-_hK779NVXuj1vmwoQiutbjiyqz8GqSikRpzlSvef0/s400/image008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212565969800743298" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgMsDoAGdXKRCM1w-BTNuOY_5VDgFujgy9uZDsvVUnlbMiuKwU3kP1Jmms8jUlcg5Q-Rnd53eIJGm5EXjyDlzfY6jUYapulkSKihgNona46xnXEQlH_ySvXEbsa3QWqIrYztOfrBBKno/s1600-h/image009.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 608px; height: 852px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgMsDoAGdXKRCM1w-BTNuOY_5VDgFujgy9uZDsvVUnlbMiuKwU3kP1Jmms8jUlcg5Q-Rnd53eIJGm5EXjyDlzfY6jUYapulkSKihgNona46xnXEQlH_ySvXEbsa3QWqIrYztOfrBBKno/s400/image009.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212565972739937746" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzPHqzDB8FRdvpiE8tcAwK_rlMqw4Zv9ZLMi31yRj5M9qmSaJCY-XGgH96s8uM-GIziBNTsvxjFb_1bMUWTdwoaVHdnNKs4M_rHdLGrxd2BnFBnMJqJ34eQgMIY56432Cvim80v9uxoko/s1600-h/image011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 524px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzPHqzDB8FRdvpiE8tcAwK_rlMqw4Zv9ZLMi31yRj5M9qmSaJCY-XGgH96s8uM-GIziBNTsvxjFb_1bMUWTdwoaVHdnNKs4M_rHdLGrxd2BnFBnMJqJ34eQgMIY56432Cvim80v9uxoko/s400/image011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212567926447226770" border="0" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">Volunteer soldiers are dismantling the barricade barrels at three points of the Green Line in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region> in order to transport them in Sao Paolo for the building of<span> </span>Charalambidis’ platforms.</span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH1NV2QitMoH-tIE9DSrvI9nPIhzu0zh0wSAY2qsKheQP_jjw_jvFXTVzHx5pjQFxzM-N2FEq7oqrngF9LbspmY5QUcCo6VF5vJ_8lyXQvEofNHmLye0Al6Lq8r10bOHIr32yvD9wSXqQ/s1600-h/image014.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 491px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH1NV2QitMoH-tIE9DSrvI9nPIhzu0zh0wSAY2qsKheQP_jjw_jvFXTVzHx5pjQFxzM-N2FEq7oqrngF9LbspmY5QUcCo6VF5vJ_8lyXQvEofNHmLye0Al6Lq8r10bOHIr32yvD9wSXqQ/s400/image014.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212567936594993170" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE3rTSCMraBDP7-0Nh2IpujgWHj6soWFxmLo_sLb7fQ0GOI1kAYfPBCsOfIw_ODjT28pqkQljm0oylZlZyx4lQh_fKrOI56n_CoSE_lFSHvSCvpewyh1-21b1fLPdirl1VzcZYpsHmSEg/s1600-h/image015.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 488px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE3rTSCMraBDP7-0Nh2IpujgWHj6soWFxmLo_sLb7fQ0GOI1kAYfPBCsOfIw_ODjT28pqkQljm0oylZlZyx4lQh_fKrOI56n_CoSE_lFSHvSCvpewyh1-21b1fLPdirl1VzcZYpsHmSEg/s400/image015.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212567948974257026" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><h1 style="font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></h1> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Since the late eighties, Charalambidis’ multi-media practice has been informed by an intense sense of politicised space, drawing strongly on his experiences as a child, when he and his family were forced to leave their home in the north of Cyprus by the invasion of the Turkish army. Reflecting aspects of his particular position as a<br />refugee and an emigrant, he had initiated (two decades ago) issues of residence and anti-residence, nomadism, place and “non-place”. Even from his very first participations in international exhibitions, he had established interactive practices, conducting performances, participatory workshops and situations that encouraged the spectators to “use” his works, transferring actually the private emotion into the public arena and questioning the formal, social and cultural implications of modernist architecture, so as the politics of those days. From 1984 (at the age of seventeen) till 1986 he had served his military service at the Green Line, the buffer zone between Greeks and Turks in Cyprus, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">during a very hard period for the relationships of these two parts; at that period, even a long soldier’s gaze over the dividing wall, could be a dangerous gesture and the artist himself was indeed a witness of the assassination of two of his companion soldiers during his military service.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_e7-5cHiGKcBDpbMQOr-u7ARrzRAVOEvfhhdQERaxbogkltvVuClVaqMfC95TC3uo9nXprrmD8h5sQJE550HjrnRnF8Ykimyh5cNvKCu5yhow1o48lXwjKP9iGdhucCUxRWFrTEPu34k/s1600-h/image017.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 586px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_e7-5cHiGKcBDpbMQOr-u7ARrzRAVOEvfhhdQERaxbogkltvVuClVaqMfC95TC3uo9nXprrmD8h5sQJE550HjrnRnF8Ykimyh5cNvKCu5yhow1o48lXwjKP9iGdhucCUxRWFrTEPu34k/s400/image017.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212567953713788530" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">One of the first Charalambidis’ interventional events in 1989 at the Green Line was a subtly and rather allegorical homage to the movement of Situationist International.<br />Charalambidis conceived at that time, that any form of artistic activity in the territory would be infinitely preferable to bloody conflict thus, the idea of a rambling museum, in the form of a participatory artistic platform, could activate the area, providing a representative, exemplary model for other contested areas as well, like in Lebanon, Ireland and Gaza’s strip. Of course in practice the authorities were bound to get in the way and real soon it was quite clear to him that if his will was to carry on this vision, this would be certainly a lonely procedure. In nowadays, twenty years later, political art is “trendy”. Soon after Cyprus had been assigned to organise and host Manifesta 6, many Cypriot artists, had become “political artists” and almost every single one has now at least one project related to the Green Line…<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">In 2003, Charalambidis had represented <st1:country-region st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region>, at the famous Aria Scarpa - palazzo Querini, showing a variety of projects of his <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Rambling</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></st1:place>. The president of Manifesta, <st1:personname st="on"><st2:givenname st="on">Henry</st2:givenname> <st2:middlename st="on">Meyric</st2:middlename> <st2:sn st="on">Hughes</st2:sn></st1:personname> was the curator of his show and the excellent collaboration between the two men, was apparently of a determining nature for the decision of the committee to host Manifesta 6 in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region></st1:place>. The perspective of an international event like that, stimulated the political feelings, not only of many artists but also of a number of curators who, unexpectedly, became sensitive about <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region></st1:place>’</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">political issue. The most vociferous example was the “Leaps of Faith” international exhibition, the curators of which had apparently followed Charalambidis’ steps, not having understood yet, much of his revolutionary practice, his courageous formula of working and his intense, selflessness and genuine devotion. “Leaps of Faith”, veiled under pseudo-political banalities and safely supported by numerous international corporations, was actually an opportunity for the invited international artists to experience an exotic weekend at a particular location like <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Protected from any dangerous and risk, the exhibition, had been widely advertised (especially to people who had never been in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region></st1:place>) as a perilous and innovative project, although in 2005 even the circulation between Greek and Turkish communities through the dividing wall was officially permitted! Of course, at the period when Charalambidis had first inspired the artistic activation of the Green Line, the conditions were completely different. In the late eighties, for example, during one of his primary, extremely risky situationistic interventions (photo above) the United Nations troops, interposed the event and arrested the artist, since the whole activities were inverting the status quo of the Green Line and the artist was incurring real dangerous for his life.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhimeqFykgravaEa99DaBPSw2dbuHWN7hgDky1JNn4xBwmTtMSqe2x1pysKOqnyKwyKmEjKVwGcS-DmcUa8O1AG3J2GVb2ne1VE-WSQbGVZOEUY0we3hwOdYrP6D3XGThMXGv_GTVolTJM/s1600-h/image019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 595px; height: 124px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhimeqFykgravaEa99DaBPSw2dbuHWN7hgDky1JNn4xBwmTtMSqe2x1pysKOqnyKwyKmEjKVwGcS-DmcUa8O1AG3J2GVb2ne1VE-WSQbGVZOEUY0we3hwOdYrP6D3XGThMXGv_GTVolTJM/s400/image019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212567963306841218" border="0" /></a> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9;">Arrayed furniture and structural elements, transferred from the artist’s house to an alternative carnival procession.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">Over the years Charalambidis has established an interdisciplinary way of working, involving local communities, universities and scientists, even military camps in his “Social Gym” projects. Combining <st2:sn st="on">Beuys</st2:sn>’ romantic activism and advanced technology, his work has been a benchmark for political engaged artistic endeavour in the 1990’s and yet. Growing up among Lebanese emigrants in <st1:country-region st="on">Cyprus</st1:country-region>, he has been always very concerned on the political situation of the nearby countries and the <st1:place st="on">Middle East</st1:place> problem. His long-term “<st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Arab</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Guggenheim</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></st1:place>” project actually reflects these concerns, addressing issues such as cultural identity, multiculturalism, the implications of globalisation and capitalism. He questions ideas of nation or nationality and the emergence of post-national identities, the legacy of colonialism, ideological conflict and religion or the impact of consumer culture and Western materialism. In Charalambidis’ proposal for a progressive carnival procession, the participatory carnival floats could convey a variety of crucial socio political and cultural information on Arab world and the <st1:place st="on">Middle East</st1:place> problem , challenging a new perspective for critical reinterpretation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"> of the complex relationships between the Western and Eastern civilisations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><st1:personname st="on"><st2:title st="on">Dr.</st2:title> <st2:givenname st="on">Aspasia</st2:givenname> <st2:sn st="on">Mastrogianni</st2:sn></st1:personname><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span> </span><span> </span><st2:givenname st="on">Art</st2:givenname> historian an</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">d critic,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span> </span>Professor at the Aegian <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">University</st1:city>, <st1:country-region st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><h1><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-14048296570142131682008-05-24T20:10:00.002+03:002008-06-15T22:37:57.413+03:00the Malevich structure<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfPnP5rR2lKL60oM2ApCOirFH5PL1BXm-unaB2Wqtr_afVZGzFz9aQ3YHKhjXPDgxoyD0cM-ru8yFid5mEjQ1t-yeVzNbhflP1IEhylZOHo_9f0ks3QV2WXQ4XMrdRQn5eiN56drWj-A/s1600-h/arab-malev.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfPnP5rR2lKL60oM2ApCOirFH5PL1BXm-unaB2Wqtr_afVZGzFz9aQ3YHKhjXPDgxoyD0cM-ru8yFid5mEjQ1t-yeVzNbhflP1IEhylZOHo_9f0ks3QV2WXQ4XMrdRQn5eiN56drWj-A/s400/arab-malev.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212193923084238210" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">The “Malevich construction” is made mainly out of glass and metal frames, though the several levels of the museum are based on metal columns as mentioned before.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><o:p style="font-family: verdana;"></o:p> <span style="font-family:verdana;">Apart from the top units (artists’ multimedia lab /conference-room) and dark rooms for video installations, the 1</span><sup style="font-family: verdana;">st</sup><span style="font-family:verdana;">, 2</span><sup style="font-family: verdana;">nd</sup><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and 3d floor are made of hemi-transparent glass. The rest of the surfaces are wooden parts.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">As for the various segmentations inside the museum, panels made out of compressed paper will be used so as to achieve a result as light as possible.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">As an inner form of the museum,<br />especially regarding the ground level,<br />can be organized concerning its exhibitions needs.<br />This can be achieved by using the compressed paper-panels<br />in order to isolate works or create group of works.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-22432189973768483142008-05-24T20:06:00.006+03:002008-08-29T13:15:22.110+03:00Starabucks.*Starbucks company, as for its corporate social responsibility (CSR), offered to build a coffee shop into the museum and offer its products at cost prices. Also, in collaboration with the museum, Starbucks is gathering through its stores all over the world, English books in order to provide local students with such an educational material (literature, art, philosophy, English)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCODeI6ahc7dbymFTN132njYxOJFVT7TQCN3hJZhEKz98use4AjklOQJ95v0DsX4-ezQYTS1yg5hoW6x_71Lp3PG3Tg_W_LReKm-bqtwv-selRTNRa1-NMcizwgwnxpVVkJCxrilSNK-c/s1600-h/turkish_STARABUKS.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203996402411901938" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCODeI6ahc7dbymFTN132njYxOJFVT7TQCN3hJZhEKz98use4AjklOQJ95v0DsX4-ezQYTS1yg5hoW6x_71Lp3PG3Tg_W_LReKm-bqtwv-selRTNRa1-NMcizwgwnxpVVkJCxrilSNK-c/s400/turkish_STARABUKS.png" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjIAjesiHjKkUd1NQqzX7n5-AVvK98RrRd49ZzQNRXGTJrTseNWknriD9u4ZZgMMlgqiRZERotdqqd00xigGoP6Amc3ZnBMaKFN3Nz3Bg7OOF1mm13d1ZrExgp4p4Yc15KbYvTWuFxzQw/s1600-h/Malevich_3d_04.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203994718784721890" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjIAjesiHjKkUd1NQqzX7n5-AVvK98RrRd49ZzQNRXGTJrTseNWknriD9u4ZZgMMlgqiRZERotdqqd00xigGoP6Amc3ZnBMaKFN3Nz3Bg7OOF1mm13d1ZrExgp4p4Yc15KbYvTWuFxzQw/s400/Malevich_3d_04.jpg" border="0" /></a> . <br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:0;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-20642407044752374422008-05-24T19:46:00.002+03:002008-08-29T13:16:34.409+03:00Museum UnitsOn top of the building there are two main units of great importance. The Guggenheim Foundation, apart from having the group of the assistant buildings surrounding the museum, functioning as workshops or studios for artists, thought of having a similar unit incorporated in the main building. This unit’s differentiation is based upon the focus on multimedia practices and computer lab facilities’ usage. Apart from the equipment offered by the museum, educational programs/seminars on new technology techniques and program use are also going to take place. This happens so as to stimulate local artists’ interest concerning contemporary mediums for art production and encourage them to produce artworks under this new aspect, maintaining though their own distinct local character a point of view.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqmv4K6VSChOb45hJLprxcrW9G661NuREU6E_sVbRejODdBHpgKgc-pAKAcaC2wKXB9VyJhQ382zKhtHUR9omggV9XiPphRcqzXACbI2yifSLxmYtdK84MI8o7F-wH6z5dp7XtOJ7qH6E/s1600-h/museo_ext_1.jpg"></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:+0;"></span> </p>MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-8636483437119586002008-05-24T19:45:00.004+03:002008-06-23T13:53:31.924+03:00A living Workshop<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:11;" lang="EN-US" > A parallel workshop had begin along with the opening of the biennial of Thessaloniki and runned till the conclusion of the exhibition. The prospective of inviting the students from the school of Fine Arts to get involved in the project was of great importance. Having the original Mies monument as pattern they proposed ways/solutions of transforming this emblematic structure into a museum. As artists, they presented particular architectural models made out of various material, making also sketches, drawings and 3D plans. Creating 3D visiting plans of the interiors of the museum, they had the opportunity organise an entire exhibition displaying their own artworks in the museum’s imaginary spaces, their artworks/proposals, following the political concept of the museum most probably within a relevant political framework . Thus, the project of having a portable “portfolio” of their works that functions as a political statement, a kind of a political traveling manifesto.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><br />snapshots from the activities involving the Athens School of Fine Arts alumni<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_99seSAcvbqHym7_E73As65HxV_LKnFp13_iXnrbd0OvMwtgShkvzidtFgSnf4j3_FcHdoz_n1DB6IHLm_GLsJWFzo3Vx9a9bFYwyzoIgnemYRR3YUX6Fbyg5qdKByazmziz4b2wBrJ8/s1600-h/P5080074.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_99seSAcvbqHym7_E73As65HxV_LKnFp13_iXnrbd0OvMwtgShkvzidtFgSnf4j3_FcHdoz_n1DB6IHLm_GLsJWFzo3Vx9a9bFYwyzoIgnemYRR3YUX6Fbyg5qdKByazmziz4b2wBrJ8/s400/P5080074.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215021136036875138" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQmybPrjhQ0Rd3MjDjYehQ8WCPBvR7EoKOsRAcy6TQSUz9F71yWKbq0ufPs8cFpJsB8wD3VNCqIPdRkvIGJ_kKiwB0faSUcDQVu-nRYx7FASZgU74eIUoYzHcnsMyiWhM23NxOtmSk62s/s1600-h/P5170110.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo0Eu8jBqdCWJhGOHf4fFhLM954PEPd_CV08mCYxFPwNWfkRYyWvqdl43h2fD_YQ0tbwPu-e6y6DHz-Sr01kO0lu5mh2xfribZWN3elhK-lzo7sDiJY1uneo3uBwn_enAQf4bicNcW1go/s400/DSC02113.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203604959092544290" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" >The construction of the museum had to be such, which could be easily dismantled and carried. It had to be light and easy to reconstruct in any case. The architect thought of using raw materials that could be found in the local area and ended up in using sun-dried cow’s remnants along with mud, for the external cover of the museum. These brick-textured panels will be set on metal unfolding structures bound with each other and based on metal columns.<span style=""> </span>On the back side of the museum, a glass-frame construction has been set on parts of the surface and also another one on the top<br />of the museum, right in the middle.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-26992265995123620562008-05-22T21:15:00.002+03:002008-05-22T21:16:08.548+03:00Design<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Fy1Bq2KEBSDny7NbnfxG2QbZfuHDwUV7CiDCOj3FCP-lriW_nTEExf6w3Xvus8HVj_DkgBu3hyphenhyphenpjwOMSgjT-y98VZb0vI8PRpHGM7buZdFaQgEeRWFCR7-uye0xHv-nC6YgFYB0TGy8/s1600-h/arab+inside+malevich.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Fy1Bq2KEBSDny7NbnfxG2QbZfuHDwUV7CiDCOj3FCP-lriW_nTEExf6w3Xvus8HVj_DkgBu3hyphenhyphenpjwOMSgjT-y98VZb0vI8PRpHGM7buZdFaQgEeRWFCR7-uye0xHv-nC6YgFYB0TGy8/s400/arab+inside+malevich.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203267606591312626" border="0" /></a>MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-34675134093116061512008-05-22T18:13:00.020+03:002009-11-03T22:55:38.642+02:00Mies monument<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG05nDHG_TKUp4nvLvaE3gsGlJ0PCtCLzbZimMhJiSvglb6Y7rMcVV2AGVb0hiXhmVdISMgUIrl37vis8JmQtII9qr7QplX33WQmZYr4rORO4GIovdVN0KTsbtuYsYGsnXcsBCXgJnm8Q/s1600-h/terragni15.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203227392812520002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG05nDHG_TKUp4nvLvaE3gsGlJ0PCtCLzbZimMhJiSvglb6Y7rMcVV2AGVb0hiXhmVdISMgUIrl37vis8JmQtII9qr7QplX33WQmZYr4rORO4GIovdVN0KTsbtuYsYGsnXcsBCXgJnm8Q/s400/terragni15.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">According to the new version, the monument is transformed into a transportable building, to house the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Arab</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Guggenheim</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></st1:place>. After a period of two year’s activities the structure will be transported in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Istanbul</st1:place></st1:city> for other two years and accordingly to other towns of the Arab world. Due to the troubled political situation of the <st1:place st="on">Middle East</st1:place> -of the Arab region in general - the founder and the shareholders of Guggenheim, had approved the architect’s idea of a portable, rambling museum.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp8aKh_GyMjpVz1Ed_ZcPmGj4c9NhyCkmGSPsdx-L25CaBc2nl4H669G-kMJ_mR32WQtumCmdSVfP4zlykNzU-NSszMarvgQsNyiXBKGHItsPxyzRmmAPS6iA87bCg0X_dw3gAb0J2ajY/s1600-h/rosal.jpg"></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNdi4NNiCoQlSOMGZGTp7PZgiUtF9W6wGRIrnqGI79cs4JnctVHZc4v7p2ppRZds3k3V3yj4R_sK3259pKE5flhTlxfx-zFftQQmNnxJExA-d3dcLkgaa2fjs3OdpvhPQSUQC2BQmJzpY/s1600-h/juh.bmp"><br /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:+0;"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span></p>MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-26339523361597721382008-05-22T18:13:00.019+03:002008-05-23T18:54:26.301+03:00Rumble<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQyrFJ8GY1_iGUi6PvFRXKvKI-bwDPmTMtFu2AZWO67zOIpZZADFUd16h4a8ADQlgYJpSQmyhOaKJKVhf4s3iOUolojGocJ-5RAviuIGrVdGVQaojAO6cAcP6Al2Vof75nEnB29go3-M/s1600-h/P5170109.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgRt8XlFvYMfIy6kb8DpVggYjWrRb-khyphenhyphen0tfkYn8CBAg7YgWt8Z7SGfp8MOSUEic9SlK09cPGZzN5VAAtzz6lPpnBl8hyphenhyphenXQa0cR0CgzVOWGRFDGHYydnvR1o32RGdQs96HnAkWxCYPGsA/s1600-h/gugugugyu.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203264097603031762" style="DISPLAY: block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/8725/stampak6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-54724616130908764172008-05-05T21:11:00.002+03:002008-05-23T18:42:22.491+03:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZOsncbJ1ASp8trkegIzXA4rBMQrF2FDrEVwhSWEo69O26tBwk0qitzouakyLrYIJjsAghyOFBlMWNimhv8mkbd57b-anlQgnzHGY9Rr9QhpeNr2xy8GjCKhjO7iXuBKb8I4qjpL_WOFs/s1600-h/beirut-01b-528.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196959008724239426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZOsncbJ1ASp8trkegIzXA4rBMQrF2FDrEVwhSWEo69O26tBwk0qitzouakyLrYIJjsAghyOFBlMWNimhv8mkbd57b-anlQgnzHGY9Rr9QhpeNr2xy8GjCKhjO7iXuBKb8I4qjpL_WOFs/s400/beirut-01b-528.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">In case of war in the hosting country, the boxes of the museum<br />can be deconstructed and transported to another Arab country<br />allowing the Arab Guggenheim to continue its task.<br />Following a premeditated rearrangement of the boxes<br />the museum can easily be rebuilt at a significant location,<br />preferably incorporating remnants of the past of each country,<br />buildings, monuments, antiquities etc.<br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">In Beirut, for case in point, the main building of the museum has<br />been surrounded by a group of assistant buildings which have been built,<br />following the original plans of the demolished quarters of the French<br />military camp; bringing back to life memories of an era that left<br />its indelible traces on Lebanese people.<br /><br />The long central buildings of the camp that in the past had<br />housed the administration and the command’s offices have been<br />converted into a series of versatile workshops for local and<br />invited artists while the soldiers’ chambers have<br />been converted into artists’ studios.</span>MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7784893440934266428.post-64550521669145044452008-05-05T18:07:00.000+03:002008-05-05T18:08:36.867+03:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfYet64psVipUV7m1VAxBx5vdD_6MBONhE8BvIfs-LG-0VrVtmhj4zbxnEhOcspxC7eaawysWjh4pBncII6nXkoLMDrSAaEoMAuzxx5g-s6TQE7bRzrgkjnCrw8GyNkfl4wQHIjRP_mS8/s1600-h/63-1457-21.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfYet64psVipUV7m1VAxBx5vdD_6MBONhE8BvIfs-LG-0VrVtmhj4zbxnEhOcspxC7eaawysWjh4pBncII6nXkoLMDrSAaEoMAuzxx5g-s6TQE7bRzrgkjnCrw8GyNkfl4wQHIjRP_mS8/s320/63-1457-21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196910892205622194" border="0" /></a>MirrorMachinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457213998727942399noreply@blogger.com