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<\/p>\nSir Norman Foster is among those on a shortlist of six architects vying to design the National Gallery\u2019s new wing as it seeks to compete with the Tate for works from the 20th and 21st centuries. <\/p>\n
Six architecture practices with dozens of cultural buildings to their names around the globe have been shortlisted for the creation of the wing at the gallery, which is likely to be the most significant new museum building in London for decades.<\/p>\n
Other contenders for the multimillion-pound brief include Kengo Kuma from Japan and Renzo Piano from Italy. The National Gallery has confirmed it plans to \u201cpark its tanks\u201d on the lawns of the Tate.<\/p>\n
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The gallery is expanding its remit into the 20th and 21st century<\/p>\n
The gallery has declared that it will no longer limit itself to showcasing paintings \u201cin the western tradition\u201d from before 1900 and will expand into the 20th and 21st century.<\/p>\n
For 25 years, the Tate has had a de facto monopoly on buying modern and contemporary works for the national collection.<\/p>\n
The National Gallery turned heads in September when it revealed it had secured two record-breaking \u00a3150 million donations, from the Crankstart foundation and the Julia Rausing Trust, to help fund its new wing. John Booth, the chair of trustees, the gallery itself and anonymous donors are providing another \u00a375 million.<\/p>\n
For the past decade, Britain\u2019s cultural organisations have bemoaned the difficulties of finding philanthropic support, which has been felt more acutely given the decline in state funding over the past 15 years.<\/p>\n
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Gabriele Finaldi, the gallery director, said that the ambition was to raise another \u00a3375 million on top of the initial \u00a3375 million donations, which would fund the new wing as well as creating an endowment fund to help safeguard its long-term future and an acquisitions fund to buy modern paintings.<\/p>\n
Although there is no price tag on the redevelopment plan yet, this is likely to mean an acquisitions fund of hundreds of millions of pounds to buy 20th-century paintings. Masterpieces from this era, by the likes of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock, command eight-figure and occasionally nine-figure prices.<\/p>\n
Finaldi said the plans, codenamed Project Domani, were for a \u00a3750 million campaign that would \u201chelp redefine the National Gallery for the next century\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThanks to the remarkable support we have already received, we are building momentum towards our vision of creating new spaces to house an expanded collection, building an acquisitions fund for modern paintings, while also ensuring the gallery\u2019s long-term financial sustainability through a robust endowment.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Sainsbury Wing<\/p>\n
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For the development of the new wing to showcase works from the 20th and 21st century, which will have a similar footprint to the gallery\u2019s Sainsbury Wing, 65 submissions were received.<\/p>\n
On the six-strong shortlist are Farshid Moussavi Architecture, Foster + Partners, Kengo Kuma and Associates, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Selldorf Architects and Studio Seilern Architects.<\/p>\n
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