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ARTinvestment.RU   30 октября 2008

During the summer in England, opened a new Center for Contemporary Arts Public Gallery, the construction of which was spent huge sums of money. But two days later it was closed due to technical problems. Judgments of British critics of the project is very

In the English city of West Bromvich going to open a center for contemporary art under the name Public Gallery, which was designed by the architect-avant-gardist Olsop Will (Will Alsop). They say that this center will become the main platform in Britain for those who are not afraid to experiment in his work with the most advanced technologies. Besides, all the installations that are going to show the Public Gallery, will be interactive - that is, creations of contemporary artists will be able to «play» anyone. Visitors promised «Digital waterfalls», «audio tunnels», «flying avatars» and other wonders of technology. Public Gallery will be the main attraction of the city of West Bromvich, which is located in the industrial region known as the «black edge». His nickname is a place located in the county of West Midlands, was «thanks» steelworks and coal mines, many appeared there at the end of XIX century. Journalists, who called «Black Region» one of the darkest places in the country, the idea should rejoice the fact that soon there will such an interesting center for contemporary art, but instead they strochat of the Public Gallery full of sarcasm articles.

The problem is that the project took a lot of money. Public Gallery building is now five years old, and all this time amounts to spend on it, has been steadily increasing. Now the cost of the project is 60 million pounds - nearly half the amount that went to the main building in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tate Modern gallery in London. The organizers, of course, must be such as to compensate for these huge amounts of money, so they made the entrance to the Public Gallery paid (and, let us rather expensive - much as 6.95 pounds). We Brits, of course, is the fury: the entrance to the permanent display of most public museums and galleries of the country, from the British Museum to new galleries Charles Saatchi (Charles Saatchi) , absolutely free. They are not used to pay for entrance to the cultural institutions that are based on taxpayers' money.

June 28 Public Gallery has finally been opened, which closed just after two days. The reason - a technical imperfection «interdependent installation complexes», which do not work as expected. Therefore decided to close the center and work on its improvement. However, the visitors managed to enjoy the stunning design Public Gallery: Building no vertical walls, but there is a movable floor. And yet there is a metal tree, «planted» designer Ben Kelly (Ben Kelly), in the 1980's, make out the legendary Manchester nightclub Hacienda.

said that the Public Gallery does open again, and fairly soon. Although the exact dates of the organizers did not call.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: theartnewspaper.com , 24hourmuseum.org.uk , artinvestment.ru



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