The English Province has opened a new museum of modern art
The resort Margate, the home of Tracey Emin opened a new museum of contemporary art Turner Contemporary museum
In the small resort town of Margate (Margate) on the southeast coast of England last Saturday opened a new museum of contemporary art Turner Contemporary museum. Townspeople hope that the cultural institution of this scale will increase the inflow of tourists to their small town, and the Museum of Modern Art after Turner will be in English, "Bilbao". This refers to the well-known branch of the Guggenheim Museum, which turned the provincial Basque city of Bilbao in the cultural capital of the region.
compete with the unique creation of Frank Gehry (Frank Gehry) in Bilbao building margeytskogo museum, designed by David Chipperfield ( David Chipperfield), perhaps not. Group of large white hangar, standing beside the sea, the press generally criticized as correspondent London Evening Standart called "alien and dull spectacle." But the project was completed on time and for relatively little money - 17,5 million pounds (28,5 million dollars). Sponsored the construction of the County Council of Kent, Arts Council England and the UK National Lottery. In 2001, that is, initially, however, has been approved another project of the museum, made by Norwegian architects Snøhetta and Spence, but in 2006 he had to withdraw because of too much value.
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Museum decided to call the name of the famous landscape painter William Turner is no accident: the artist often visited Margate, and the place of the current museum board had stood where he stopped. Return to this museum to its former glory dreams resort famous native of Margate Tracey Emin (nominee of the Turner Prize in 1999 for his installation "My Bed"). At the opening ceremony of the museum the artist remarked that "art - the best thing that could happen to Margate».
The museum will be temporary exhibitions of contemporary artists, and the first such exhibition includes works by Daniel Burena (Daniel Buren), Ellen Harvey (Ellen Harvey), Conrad Shawcross (Conrad Shawcross), Russell Crotty (Russell Crotty), Teresita Fernandez (Teresita Fernández) and Douglas Gordon (Douglas Gordon).
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