Vignettes

After entering through a courtyard, a visitor is lead to a reading room where books on Egon Schiele as well as art and literature provide an intellectual context for the gallery. An angled wall leading to the first gallery space leads the eye and body into that direction.

Schiele's confronting self portraits are enhanced by the contrast between the bloated space that contains it and the small corridor space that draws the body entering from the Reading Room. This sense of compression and decompression, of drawing the body into a space and then releasing it, continues through out the gallery spaces.

From the decompressed space of the first gallery displaying Schiele's self portraits, the body is lead through a compressed corridor-like space bathed by light displaying Schiele's Female Nudes. This space fits a maximum of two people, drawing people who were once scattered while observing Schiele's self portraits, closer to one another. They are made to witness each other's reactions to the beautiful yet perverse paintings, intruding into the subject's sexual fantasies.

From the corridor space of the second gallery, the body is lead through to the gallery space focused on Schiele's paintings depicting love. Here, the space is once again decompressed, designed to not only make the body pause through each painting, but to pause and perhaps gaze through the courtyard in front.

Once a person has finished sitting and observing, they are lead to another compressed space which will lead them to the final gallery space.

Past the enclosed final gallery space, the last destination is the Art dealer's shop. Before reaching the shop "front" a visitor must pass through another corridor covered with the art dealer's Schiele influenced work.