Your black horizon Art Pavilion
An
art project by Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye on Lopud Island
Your
black horizon Art Pavilion caused a sensation when it was premiered at
the last Biennale. Now the joint project by Olafur Eliasson and David
Adjaye can be experienced on the Croatian island of Lopud. The light
installation was opened with a symposium supported by Deutsche Bank and
attended by a number of big names. The initiator of the project, Francesca
von Habsburg, the artist and the architect of the pavilion discussed the
potential of temporary art spaces with a panel of international experts.
Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary Art Pavilion
in
Lopud, Kroatien (Außenansicht)
Photo:
Michael Strasser
©
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2007
A
small path winds its way from the bay up a hill. Your
black horizon Art Pavilion – a joint project by artist Olafur
Eliasson and architect David
Adjaye – sits hidden behind cypress trees, gnarled olive trees and old
stone walls. From a distance, the construction brings to mind an oversized
wooden fence. Behind it rises a tree-covered hill, and below it the ocean
shimmers a rich blue. The pavilion sits amid an enchanted idyll on Lopud,
a small island just off the coast from the Croatian port city of Dubrovnik.
Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary Art Pavilion
in
Lopud, Kroatien (Außenansicht)
Photo:
Michael Strasser
©
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2007
Your
black horizon Art Pavilion is a programmatic
commissioned work for Francesca
von Habsburg's foundation T-B A21,
and was first shown at the 51st
Venice Biennale. At the same time, it's the pilot project of an
initiative that has developed a new approach to the presentation of
contemporary art. A series of temporary pavilions is planned in which
commissioned works are shown on a rotating basis, creating a continually
regenerating network. "It is important to us at T-B A21 to promote the
importance and value of contemporary art projects in 'remote' environments
– places not as easily accessible as regional centers, communities with
sparse and unlikely exposure to contemporary art", says Francesca von
Habsburg, who has been involved in the arts in Croatia for some time.
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David Adjaye, Francesca von Habsburg and
Olafur Eliasson
Opening of the
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Art Pavilion,
Lopud,
Kroatien, 2007
Photo: Todd
Eberle / Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2007
On
the occasion of the art pavilion's opening, Deutsche
Bank supported a symposium called Patronage
Over Space in Dubrovnik. It took place at the Lazareti, a former
17th-century quarantine station on the edge of the old city center that is
currently used for various cultural activities. A panel made up of
prominent experts discussed the relationships between art and architecture
and the integration of innovative projects such as the art pavilion in
local structures.
Symposium
"Patronage of Space", Lopud, Kroatien, 2007
Christ
Inman, Olafur Eliasson, Francesca von Habsburg,
Andreas
Ruby, Jorge Otero-Pailos, David Adjaye, Matthew Ritchie
Photo:
Mateo Rilovic/ Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2007
Along
with initiator Francesca von Habsburg, Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye,
panel members included artist Matthew
Ritchie, curator Hans
Ulrich Obrist, architect Dinko Peracic and architectural
conservationists and theorists such as Beatriz
Colomina, Mark
Wigley and Andreas
Ruby.
Eliasson and Adjaye emphasized the close cooperation that
went into their project, which they had developed in an artistic dialogue.
Obrist, one of those responsible for the annual summer
pavilion in London's Serpentine
Gallery, stressed that pavilions interest him precisely because of
their "limited life span". He said that as temporary constructions created
especially for specific works, they were particularly closely connected
with the art they house. For Andreas Ruby, pavilions possess the potential
to establish new and closer relationships between viewers and artworks
than ordinary museums can. He said it was especially important that they
be open-plan and integrated into the on-site contexts. Then, such
temporally limited projects had the potential to attract the public to
unknown places off the beaten art-world paths, such as to Lopud.
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Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye
Opening
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Art Pavilion, Lopud, Kroatien,
2007
Photo: Mateo Rilovic
/ Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2007
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