View of the exhibition Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 2014. © Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Picture © Luc Boegly.
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Exhibition overview

From October 25, 2014 to February 22, 2015, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain will continue to commemorate its 30th anniversary with Musings on a Glass Box, a new installation created especially for the occasion by the internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary design studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

The exhibition in detail

View of the exhibition Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 2014. © Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Picture © Luc Boegly.

" Jean Nouvel’s distinctive glass exhibition spaces in the Fondation Cartier have been a provocation to artists and curators for two decades, upending the conventions of the white box gallery and pushing the limits of architecture. The large, transparent walls of the building were at the forefront of glass technology in the 1990s, aspiring to one of Modernism’s highest goals: to dematerialize the wall and seamlessly connect interior to exterior.

Musings on a Glass Box empties the ground floor galleries in order to put them on display. Their visual and acoustic qualities are heightened through a few strategically placed interventions in the building’s plumbing, electrical, and facade systems. Using a cliché of time lapsed and the appearance of neglect, the project begins with a single, mischievous leak from the ceiling. A response ensues with the aid of a bucket, a chorus, sensors, robotics, remote communications, video, and real-time sound processing. The two ground floor galleries interconnect in a feedback loop. Small gestures in the large gallery are amplified in the smaller one, making the familiar seem uncanny and turning the banal into the grotesque ".

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

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View of the exhibition Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 2014

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View of the exhibition Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 2014

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View of the exhibition Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 2014

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View of the exhibition Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 2014

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© Diller Scofidio + Renfro

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© Luc Boegly

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