Holl Steven HEART (Contemporary Art Museum).

Author: Pallasmaa, Juhani, Steven Holl & Holger Reenberg
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish/German
Year Published: 2009
No. of pages: 96
Illustrations: 37 Color Illustrations. 17 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 10 1/2”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9783775724937
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6709

Price: $59.50

HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark is a new building designed by the renowned American architect Steven Holl. He showed a keen interest in the project, first of all because the museum owns a unique collection by the Italian conceptual arte povera-artist Piero Manzoni. In 1960 Manzoni was invited to Herning for the first time by Aage Damgaard, the owner of a well-known shirt factory. Aage Damgaard’s interest in contemporary art resulted in a visionary model for cooperation between businesses and artists – and in founding a museum. Holl’s complex structures are surrounded by a landscape of hills and ponds which fits in the environment. The single-story building, with its natural light and innovative roof construction, refers to the formal vocabulary of the factory opposite from the 1960s in the circular shape of a collar. From a bird’s-eye perspective the new building recalls outstretched shirt sleeves and the in situ façade has a surface resembling a wrinkled white shirt. Opening of the museum: HEART – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, September 9, 2009