{"id":609199,"date":"2026-04-15T20:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/609199\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:31:16","slug":"art-installations-bring-colour-to-zumthors-austere-lacma-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/609199\/","title":{"rendered":"Art installations bring colour to Zumthor’s austere LACMA addition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Art has been added to The David Geffen Galleries at LACMA<\/a> in Los Angeles, USA, with colourful works enlivening the massive concrete structure designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Suspended from the ground over Wiltshire Boulevard on 10 piers, the 347,500-square-foot (32,283 square metre) structure is nearing completion after being in the works for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

\"PeterArt has been installed at Peter Zumthor’s LACMA building<\/p>\n

Along the undulating facade, two slabs of post-tensioned concrete sandwich a continuous wall of glass, and the top slab cantilevers over the sides as much as 40 feet (13 metres) out.<\/p>\n

Exposed brass mullions give further rhythm to the window wall, and steep staircases lead up from the street.<\/p>\n

\"PeterThe main circulation areas features installations up against the raw concrete walls<\/p>\n

Now, its rough concrete interiors have been shown full of the art for which it was made.<\/p>\n

Two primary treatments characterise the setting of the art; the first is positioning in the more open aspects of the building, open, at times to the large expanse of glass that offers views of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\"PeterChrome curtains cover the spans of window wall<\/p>\n

The other treatment is seen in the internal gallery rooms dotted along the plan, often in tandem with the structural towers holding the building up.<\/p>\n

For the former, the art sits on pedestals and tables on the polished concrete floors, with wall hangings directly against the rougher walls.<\/p>\n

In some spaces, the walls have been painted with chemical paint. New York Times critic Michael Kimmelman said this paint gave the walls the appearance of “textured fabric”.<\/p>\n

\"PeterAt points, the concrete has been painted<\/p>\n

The range of contemporary to ancient art pieces gives the collection in these spaces a more residential feel. Some of the artwork sits directly against the glass walls, which can be covered by sputtered-chrome curtains.<\/p>\n

For the more contained galleries, wall panels of different colours create spaces separate from the austerity of the circulation installations.<\/p>\n

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Overhead track lighting extends from the ceilings, and the floors have been overlaid with light wood planks.<\/p>\n

The first round of installations includes everything from Chinese fashion to Austrian expressionism and a solo exhibition for Bahamian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan.<\/p>\n

\"PeterPolished flooring and pedestals were spread around the concrete building<\/p>\n

It looks relatively similar to the set of renderings that Zumthor released in 2017<\/a>, after four years of revisions.<\/p>\n

LACMA<\/a> is set to open this new gallery on 4 May. We took a closer look at the building’s architecture at its completion last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is courtesy of Museum Associates\/LACMA.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Art has been added to The David Geffen Galleries at LACMA in Los Angeles, USA, with colourful works…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11480,449,458,459,64,63,485,6048,460,134,37832,481,21816,7367,61745,61746,62769,2957],"class_list":{"0":"post-609199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-california","15":"tag-concrete","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-lacma","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-museums","21":"tag-peter-zumthor","22":"tag-sectionall","23":"tag-sectionarchitecture","24":"tag-sectioninteriors","25":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}