Olten Art Museum dedicates an exhibition to architectural sketches
Published: Thursday, May 30th 2024, 10:50
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The Olten Art Museum is dedicating the exhibition "Begin Again. Fail Better", which highlights failure as part of the creative process. On display are designs from the Italian Renaissance to contemporary architecture.
The starting point for the exhibition was an adapted quote from the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, as co-curator Manuel Montenegro said in an interview with the Keystone-SDA news agency. Beckett dealt with failure, just as the exhibition does now - but in a positive sense. "Failure becomes a driving force in the creative process and is closely linked to learning and testing one's own craft," said the curator.
According to Montenegro, the exhibition shows how architects have documented their first steps over the course of time. He organized the exhibition together with architects Marco Bakker and Helen Thomas as well as Dorothee Messmer, Director of the Kunstmuseum Olten. It is mainly about the first sketches of an idea and the subsequent version in which the idea was further developed.
Sketches of the architectural prominence
The sketches are presented in pairs, showing a development. On display is a wide range of works from the past to the present day, including designs by the 50 best-known Swiss architecture firms. A total of 271 objects will be exhibited in Olten, for example by the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012), who designed Brasilia in the style of Corbusier, or by HHF Architekten in Basel.
For example, visitors can see how Swiss architect Karl Moser's (1860-1936) idea for the future parish church of St. Anthony in Basel changed. With the second design, the architect adapted the appearance of the church so that it fitted in better with the adjacent block. "Moser started with a conventional idea, which he then adapted to the specific context of the surroundings," says Montenegro.
The vernissage will take place on May 31. The exhibition will be on display from June 1 to August 25.
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