TEFAF Maastricht 2018
HOH Architecten design a layered exhibition space for BorzoGallery where art and architecture blend into one another.
BorzoGallery is a gallery known for work by Zero/Nul, Minimalism and Geometric Abstraction and represented artists such as Jan Schoonhoven, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Constant, Kenneth Snelson and George Rickey. This year, during the exhibition for TEFAF Maastricht 2018, the gallery will focus on the sculptures from their collection.
HOH Architects transformed the standard TEFAF space of 7m by 10m into a layered space by dividing it in four with 5 cm thin gray walls. Rectangular openings have been cut out of the walls, forming the passageways between the various spaces and the niches for the sculptures. Through the openings the visitor can already see a fragment of the next room and the next works. As a result, the artworks do not only stand on their own, but are also explicitly linked to each other as a collection.
Because the thickness of the walls and of the artworks are more or less the same, a play arises between the three-dimensional space and the two-dimensional plane. An opening in a wall sometimes seems to be a work of art and sometimes a work of art, such as a black rectangular work by Tadaaki Kuwayama, seems to be an opening. Architecture and art reinforce each other and merge with each other.
