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© Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa - Sanaa . Pubblicata il 25 Novembre 2008.

THE INSTALLATION
Kazuyo Sejima makes the following observations on the Pavilion installation: “We decided to make transparent curtains using acrylic material, since we didn’t want the installation to interfere in any way with the existing space of the Barcelona Pavilion.

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© Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa - Sanaa . Pubblicata il 25 Novembre 2008.

The acrylic curtains rest lightly on the floor and adopt the form of a sinuous spiral. The curtain adapts smoothly to the Pavilion’s inner space to create a new atmosphere. The view through the acrylic material is rather different from the original one, in that it generates gentle reflections that slightly distort the Pavilion.”

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© Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa - Sanaa . Pubblicata il 25 Novembre 2008.

INSTALLATIONS AT THE PAVILION
This piece forms part of what has become a firmly established programme of installations – conceived as light, short-duration exhibitions or interventions – at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. The Pavilion provides the opportunity to work with creative formats that may occasionally be supplemented by other activities.

The periodical programming of installations at the Pavilion offers the city of Barcelona the chance to host unique works which, thanks to the creativity of both Spanish and international artists and architects, reinterpret and update one of its major cultural assets, the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.

*Other artists and architects who have executed installations for the Pavilion include Iñaki Bonillas, Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jeff Wall, Jérôme Schlomoff, Ulrich Meister, Panamarenko, Angela Bulloch & Joachim Grommek, Lluís Casals, R.D. Adela, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Jens Hoffmann, Kay Fingerle, Philippe Terrier-Hermann, Thomas Ruff, Victor Burgin, Claude Rutault and Dennis Adams.