The Narrative
The gallery will be owned by an eccentric art dealer who will share the bed sit upper apartment with his eccentric wife. They share a love for the expressionist work of Egon Schiele and wish for a space that displays the artist's development in a sequence. The upper apartment will be designed so that the gallery below it, with its different ceiling heights, will appear to puncture or push through the upper level's floors. There will be peaking areas through out the apartment, so that the art dealer and his wife are free to observe or possibly peak at their collection below as well as visitors. Whether it be to ensure the security of their belongings or to simply spy on the various reactions of visitors as they view the artworks.
[Note: The blog will follow a backward order, aiming to depict and focus on the gallery space. Towards the end, contextual information will appear to be added, broadening the view of the spaces designed.]
The Gallery Sequence
The gallery space found at the ground level of the building explores the sequence of Egon Schiele's work, it aims to combine bodily movement with the experience of viewing each art work.
[with reference to above image]
The sequence:
a) Courtyard entrance: to create a transition from the buzz of King Street to a more composed gallery environment
b) Reading Room: intellectual context to gallery
[numbered = gallery space]
1) Egon Schiele and the Self
2) Female Nudes
3) Love
c) Courtyard
4) Life and Death (Contrasting the fluid spaces of the preceding gallery spaces, this space will be the most enclosed, intended for a stop rather than a pause through the paintings)
d) Storage space (secret entrance at Life and Death gallery, perhaps the final gallery exhibit on special exhibit nights)
e) Art Dealer's Office/Shop
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