1:1 Period Rooms1:1 Period Rooms

For_1:1 Period Rooms Greek architect and artist_ Andreas Angelidakis designed an installation based on original period rooms from teh collection of Amsterdam Museum that had not been on show to the public since the 1970s. A brief insight in to his design proces.

In the course of his research in to Sandberg's innovation at the Stedelijk Museum, Angelidakis discovered that the museum director spoke about 'bringing the street' in to the museum. Angelidakis imagines that Sandberg was not referring to the historic streets surrounding the museum, but streets that were being designed by architects and contemporaries like Mart Stam and J.J.P. Oud. While the historic centre of Amsterdam was increasingly becoming one big period room, the modern city was entering the museum. The white gables of modernism became white exhibition walls for modernist paintings. In this sense, the white cube and the period room became embroiled - in Angelikadis' vision - in a surrealistic struggle between the city and the museum.

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