When
looking for a way to spatialize our research we also came across another
model of mixing the past, the present and different places:
In 2000 I visited the Salon De Fleurus, a permanent installation situated
in an appartment in Manhattan.
The doorman, introducing himself as Goran Djordjevic, explained the space: it was an exact copy of Gertrude Stein's Salon in Paris in the 1920ies. On the walls were copies of essential modernist paintings. The whole appartment had an overwhelming atmosphere of irreality, underlined by the doorman telling stories about how the history of modern art was constructed. When our group was about to go, he handed over an envelope containing materials of several art-pieces. One about a small model of a museum-like space. Photos are showing the model from above, there are small copies of famous modernist paintings on the walls. There’s also a diagram in the envelope, about the history of modern art, by Alfred Barr, director of the MOMA in New York in the 1930s. The model-piece is called ‘Alfred Barr’s Museum of Modern Art’. It’s a 3d-spatialization of the diagram.
