Pretty Vacant by Rietveld Landscape.
28/05/2013.
Centraal Museum [Utrecht] Netherlands
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
The installation Pretty Vacant encourages visitors to take a fresh look at the empty spaces of the Centraal Museum. The blue window literally and figuratively sheds a new light on the space and complements the architecture of this medieval chapel.
Pretty Vacant by Rietveld Landscape. Photography © Rob 't Hart. Click above to see larger image.
Detail. Pretty Vacant by Rietveld Landscape. Photography © Rob 't Hart. Click above to see larger image.
Pretty Vacant by Rietveld Landscape. Photography © Rob 't Hart. Click above to see larger image.
Detail. Pretty Vacant by Rietveld Landscape. Photography © Rob 't Hart. Click above to see larger image.
Pretty Vacant by Rietveld Landscape. Photography © Rob 't Hart. Click above to see larger image.
Units, elements of Pretty Vacant by Rietveld Landscape. Photography © Rob 't Hart. Click above to see larger image.
Pretty Vacant by Dutch design and research office Rietveld Landscape has built an arched foam screen with hundreds of building-shaped holes inside a disused chapel at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. The installation encourages visitors to take a fresh look at the museum’s ‘empty’ spaces.
The window is based on the ‘negative spaces’ of Rietveld Landscape’s earlier installation Vacant.nl, which was the Dutch submission for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010. The installation in the Rietveld-designed pavilion in Venice proposed innovative uses for 10,000 disused public buildings in the Netherlands from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. In the formerly unused space in the museum highlighted in Pretty Vacant, the Centraal Museum is exhibiting a changing selection of objects from the museum’s collection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century applied arts and design. Through the acquisition of this installation by Rietveld Landscape with support from the Mondriaan Fund, the Centraal Museum has realised its ambition of adding Vacant NL to the ‘Collectie Nederland’.
Dates.- 18 May 2013 until 31 January 2014
Venue.- Centraal Museum. Nicolaaskerkhof 10, 3512 XC Utrecht. Netherlands.
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RONALD RIETVELD
Ronald Rietveld, (1972, Gorinchem, NL), graduated in 2003 from the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, specialization landscape architecture (cum laude ). In 2004 his graduation project “Delta Works 2.0” was awarded the ARCHIPRIX (third prize). After winning the Prix de Rome Architecture (first prize) in 2006, he started his own design and research office, Rietveld Landscape, together with his brother Erik Rietveld (Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard Univ ersity). The office has exhibited work in various international exhibitions and has its own unsolicited research program for contemporary issues in the public domain. Ronald Rietveld presents frequently at conferences and is a lecturer at the Design Academy Eindhoven (Master’s program). He has also lectured at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam, and TU-Delft. He is a jury member for several design competitions. By invitation of the Netherlands Architecture In stitute (NAI), Rietveld Landscape will contribute the Dutch submission to the 12th Architecture Biennale of Venice 2010.
