Art
Perception
Contemporary
Art Gallery
“Recent years, I am challenging to
incorporate formless elements that appeal to our heart such as idea, color,
scent, and to design an emotion itself”
Tokujin yoshioka – The Snowflake
“The snowscape created with the
feather would be more like the memory of snow lying with people rather than the
actual snow”
Tokujin Yoshioka – Sensing Nature
The
site
Located on the river Trent in Nottingham the building was build in 1929
as a Trent Navigation storage unit. The area on the same site of the river is
industrial. On the opposite side of the river are located many sports
playgrounds and parks. On site there are the Trent River Cruises.
The
Concept
The concept of the project is Motion. The topic of motion is very broad
and covers a large spectrum of activities and can be associated with almost
everything because motion is everywhere and in everything around us. In order
to narrow it down I decided to focus on the feeling of motion instead of the
actual action. The aim is to explore how motion feels and how the memory of
this feeling can be triggered through design. The main aim of art is to explore
and to provoke a certain emotion through a piece of artwork. By creating a
design using the art techniques the gallery becomes the art itself.
The
Brief
The Art Perception is a Contemporary Art Gallery designed on the river
Trent .There are not many places where large scale art can be exhibited which
limits the development if the artists and the art itself. The Art Perception
consists of five galleries big enough to exhibit large scale art and have the
mobility to show smaller pieces as well.
The
Design
The design of the gallery is based on the concept of motion and on the
way through art emotions are provoked. The way to experience motion is to
change spaces which are dynamic with calm and quite ones in order to be able to
appreciate the motion in the first one and the statics in the second one. The
same principle applies in the way art is approached – people view art in quiet
and calm spaces where they can focus in order to capture the emotion from the
artwork followed by the need to share the knowledge which takes place in a more
dynamic atmosphere. In the design through various dynamic routes can be
accessed the different calm points, the galleries.
