Model rendez-vous, Műcsarnok, Budapest
17, November 2010
The second International Model Festival was organized in the Budapest Műcsarnok. The world famous interactive exhibition was open for the visitors from the 13th to the 16th of November.
Models are the determinative points of architectural planning. Nowadays over the practical functions they become to be considered pieces of art as well. They often witness about extreme designer ideas or they call up the fabulous world of plotting boards. Within the confines of the exhibition visitors could watch and get involved into the procedure of model creation.
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The festival deployed several world famous creations. For example visitors could see the work of the Japanese Ben Siguru’s, which represents the Centre Pompidou-Metz opened in 2010, the creation of the Swiss Christian Kerez’s about new Gallery of Modern Arts in Warszawa, the model of the National Gallery in Ljubljana designed by Sadar&Vuga, the work of the Hungarian Tamás Lévai about the new Art Gallery in Maribor as well as the reconstructional model of the Gallery of Fine Arts in Budapest.
The main attraction of the four day long program was the so called ’model dual’ fenced by the offices of Péter Kis and Gábor Zoboki. The participants had to build models in specific topics in 90 seconds.
The interactive festival also contained architectural conference forums where several foreign lecturers participated. On Monday great international authorities were discussing topic of museum expansions as László Baán the director general of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, László Csorba, the director general the Hungarian National Gallery, Tomasz Fudala, the curator of Museum of Modern Arts in Warszawa, Heléne Guenin, the curator of Centre Pompidou-Metz, Andrej Smrekar, the ex-director of the National Gallery in Ljubljana as well as Maria Welzig architectural expert and curator.
The central question of the event was the museums’ new, still changing role in the modern society. Galleries in our age are a lot more than simple exhibition places, they are the central meeting and organizational points of cultural and social life. This theory was unquestionably confirmed by the Model Festival.
Source: MTI
