Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
Source: aartinfo.com

As reported by The New York Times, gave the American authorities Helsinki Guggenheim Foundation 2.5 million dollars to study the feasibility of construction in the Finnish capital of the eponymous museum of modern art. The results of the work must be submitted in late 2011. The museum offers located in a former port area, where Mayor Jussi Pajunen (Jussi Pajunen) intends to hold large-scale reconstruction. Initiated the construction of the Guggenheim, the Director of the Art Museum Helsinki Janne Gallen-Kallela-Siren (Janne Gallen-Kallela-Siren).

In a New York museum already has several satellites, the largest of which, Abu Dhabi will be completed in 2013. The cost of the project is a fantastic $ 800 million, the new museum area will be 12 times greater than American. As in the Emirates, and in Finland the powers that were inspired by the extraordinary success of the branch in Bilbao, thanks to which the Basque city into a cultural capital of the region. Attraction of world-class museum makes the first architecture - a building designed by Frank Gehry (Frank Gehry), is a deconstructivist masterpiece. There was even the phrase "the effect of Bilbao", signifying the transformation of cities into tourist attraction thanks to a spectacular facilities. However, Gallen-Kallela-Siren says that the Finnish Architecture Museum in no case will not dominate the exhibition. "Our task - to create a Museum of the XXI century, and the appearance of the building will depend on the general concept" - he says.

In recent years, in Finland there is a surge of interest in art. In 1998, the capital has acquired a "likeness of the Guggenheim in Bilbao - the eminent architect Steven Holl (Steven Holl) built a modern art museum Kiasma (« chiasm). The most popular artist in the country at the moment is Eyya-Liisa Atila (Eija-Liisa Ahtila), in 2009 introduced its first full-length film on the American festival Sundance. Among other well-known artists - a sculptor Vesa Pekka Rannikko (Vesa-Pekka Rannikko) and photographer Calle Catala (Kalle Kataila).

news a few clouds the fact that not all high-profile initiatives of the Fund Guggenheim had been successful - in the example could never materialized museums in Brazil, Mexico and Hong Kong, and also closed due to lack of visitors affiliate in Las Vegas (which ran in conjunction with the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum). Nevertheless, it is worth noting that some studies on the feasibility of projects the organization earns a lot of money.

material was prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI

Source: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru