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Herrn J. Maus
25 NOVEMBER 1998
10” x 10” collage
© Steven Sloman |
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Chaise Lounge for Knoll
International
Richard Meier
© Steven Sloman |
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Neugebauer House
Naples, Florida
© Scott Frances / ESTO |
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High Museum of Art
New Harmony, Indiana
© Ezra Stoller / ESTO |
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Grand Piano
1995, Rud. Ibach Sohn
Schwelm, Germany
© Uli Steinmetz |
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Zwiefalten
1994, stainless steal
28.5 x 42 x 39.5”
© Steven Sloman |
THE LOUISE T BLOUIN INSTITUTE is currently celebrating the
retrospective exhibition of Richard
Meier: Art and Architecture. The solo exhibition presents
Meier’s extraordinary versatility
as artist, designer and architect and comprises an overview
of Meier’s outstanding international architectural creations
together with an exploration of his sculpture, collages, drawings,
photographs, furniture and product design over 45 years.
Richard Meier remains the youngest recipient of the Pritzker
Prize (1984) which is considered to be architecture’s
highest accolade. He is renowned internationally for cultural
projects which include The Getty Center, Los Angeles; the High
Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Barcelona; and the Jubilee Church, Rome, amongst others.
Meier has over the years developed his own distinctive and
dynamic style of architecture to become one of America’s
most influential and widely emulated architects. His work celebrates
natural light and space in response to the environs in which
it stands, thereby creating sublime spaces of aesthetic illumination
and enlightened cultural values.
Parallel to 45 years of architectural practice, Richard Meier
has been making sculpture and collages and ceramics. The sculpture
and collages, which he has created from papers, tickets and
cuttings collected on his travels, express space and pivotal
moments that are explored and articulated in his buildings.
Meier’s furniture, ceramic, glassware and silver objects
have become iconic designs and marry a minimalist tradition
with beautiful simplicity. To highlight his extraordinary versatility
as a designer we are exhibiting a unique grand piano designed
by Richard Meier and built by IBACH.
Louise T Blouin MacBain, Chairman of the Foundation, comments: ‘We
are delighted to be exhibiting Richard Meier. Art and architecture
are central to the expression and collective enjoyment of creativity
and fundamental to our sense of well-being. The individual
aesthetics of architecture shared in cities across the world
is one of the positive aspects of globalisation and adds to
our growing cultural exchange.’
There will also be an extensive programme of lectures, education
work and public events to explore architecture and the environment,
well-being, art and light within an architectural space.
Richard Meier
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