"Late Turner" exhibition is a good example of how the classical gallery looks like. The painting on walls, sketch books and documents are on the table in the middle of the room under a glass cube. Narration, each room brings you to a new stage of life of the painter. I noticed the importance of the colour of the walls. The room painted in yellow was overwhelming, in fact I could not pay a proper attention to drawings and painting. All of a sudden I felt tired. No wonder that nowadays, the interiors of gallery spaces are mostly white, so nothings distracts the viewer from enjoying the work of art.
Light in the gallery is very diffused, it never shines straight in the eyes. One of the examples of lighting is the lamp in Turner Gallery in Tate Britain.
The day light is very important, it saves the electricity, and brings a comfortable light in to the space.(in this case there is a window in the gallery) The window allows the visitors to return to the reality, and surprisingly find themselves in the middle of London, near the river.
Despite the day light is a key factor of the good lighting in the gallery, the sun rays can be hazard for paintings and other works of art, so the windows on the roof are closed with a semi-transparent fabric to diffuse the light and make it more gentle. Straight sun rays are not welcomed into the gallery space. Special (day light) lamps keep the lighting in balance.
We are working with flooring at the moment. It is very important to engage the floor with the gallery and museum design. The floor can be used to inform people about the year and the style and the theme of a particular room, or tell them to lift up their eyes and look around. I have found these interesting and minimalistic hints on the floor in Tate Britain, almost each room has this numbers to inform the visitors of the period of time the works in that particular room were produced.
One of the video performances gave me an idea, that maybe the objects themselves should not be even shown in Design Museum, maybe the design process and a shadow of the product on a wall can be enough? In that movie I could not see the ventilator, but I saw its shadow, and it seemed to be just enough.
In this drawing we can see how Monument column was placed on its current position. We can understand the scale of the structure that had to be built in order to lift the column up. We can see the labour that takes place in each stage of the creation and construction of massive buildings and monuments.
(Exhibition Design by Philip Hughes)
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