She has also designed locations for Gladstone Gallery and spaces at Gagosian Gallery, Frieze and the Venice Art Biennale, in addition to homes for artists like Cindy Sherman and David Salle and a studio for Jeff Koons. The German architect has long collaborated with Iwan and Manuela Wirth, the couple behind Hauser & Wirth gallery, most recently designing a new gallery space at 542 West 22nd Street in Manhattan. But her resume consists of smaller-scale projects, with an emphasis on gallery design and a more elegant, minimal style. Like Piano, Selldorf’s work consists primarily of projects related to institutions in the art world. “When I make a museum, I’m making a place of shared values, a place for people to meet.” He is now one of the most celebrated museum designers in the world, with dozens of notable projects to his name, including The Shard, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His high-tech and light-filled designs transforms art institutions into places of social and cultural gatherings. “They were a place only for the few,” Piano told Art Forum in 2018, describing museums as “sacred spaces, places of ceremony and ritual.” While Piano, 85, is behind more art museums than any other living architect, he didn’t initially have any interest in designing art spaces. Piano went on to win the Pritzker Prize in 1998, with the jury comparing his curiosity and problem-solving skills to “those earlier masters of his native land, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.” The Centre Pompidou in Paris. The Italian architect’s first major project came to fruition in the 1970s, when Piano and his business partner Richard Rogers, both relatively unknown at the time, won an international competition to design the Centre Pompidou. The Zwirner gallery was scheduled to be the first-ever commercial gallery project for Piano, who is best known for his designs of museums around the globe. “This is a classic case of making lemonade out of lemons,” Zwirner told the New York Times. She is also behind new offices totaling at 36,000-square-feet, which opened in June at 520 W 20th Street. The photographs include at least one image of a hermaphroditic woman who appears in some of the accompanying stories.While famed architect Piano was selected by Casco Development to head the design of Zwirner’s new gallery, the art dealer is now tapping Selldorf, a long-time collaborator of Zwirner’s, to design a two-story, 18,000-square-foot gallery and offices at 533 W 19th Street. The collection's photographs and magazine clippings appear to have been used as models for some of the sketches and artwork. There are also loose, miscellaneous illustrations in the collection with no correlating story. All include accompanying hand-drawn illustrations. Most stories are handwritten in the style of a graphic novel some are typed. Two of the four sketchbooks include drafts of multiple storylines. The stories included in the collection range in length from one page to 46 pages. Also includes some amateur pornographic photography and magazine clippings. The stories and illustrations appear to be the work of a single individual, with nearly all narrative told from a female's point of view. This collection contains an archive of original illustrations, four sketchbooks, and erotic stories, depicting transgressive sex acts including (but not limited to) lesbian and heterosexual sex, incest, pedophilia, sadomassochistic behavior, and copulation with objects as varied as sex toys, produce, and household appliances. An archive of original illustrations, sketchbooks, and erotic stories, depicting transgressive sex acts including (but not limited to) lesbian and heterosexual sex, incest, pedophilia, sadomassochistic behavior, and copulation with objects as varied as sex toys, produce, and household appliances.
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