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February 2006 |
Frank Gehry: Art +
Architecture
Art Gallery of Ontario to May 7,
2006
By Alidė Kohlhaas
Construction and reconstruction at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is well under way, yet for many it isn't clear just what Frank O. Gehry has wrought for the gallery and its neighborhood. There is no better way to find out than to attend the current exhibit, Frank Gehry: Art + Architecture, which is on view at the gallery until May 7. It not only offers insight into the final design for the new AGO, but also into four other major projects already completed by the architect.
A sense of joy permeates the exhibit of models of the yet to be completed AGO rebirth, Chicago's Millennium Park concert venue (completed 2004), Cambridge (Mass.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Ray and Maria Stata Center and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angels (both completed in 2003), and finally the in 2001 completed DZ Bank building in Berlin. Complemented by sketches and drawings of his projects, as well as photographs, it also offers audio/visual components that contain interviews and testimonials that give the visitor a deep insight into the mind and vision of one of the greatest architects of the latter part of the 20th and now the 21st centuries.
One has an impulse to become a child and start creating imaginary lives inside these models. They are sophisticated doll houses that any child — even grown up ones — will enjoy. They are the building equivalent of the model railway and we know who plays with those!
Most of us have seen the model of a new building at some time or other. Just think of the model of the new opera house, which music lovers can see whenever they attend an opera at the Hummingbird Centre. But seeing one model on its own a . . .
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