Project Description
The installation at the Denny Dimin Gallery in New York, NY was a collaboration between M+TAD and artist Luke Diiorio. In an effort to create a dialogue between sculpture, architecture, and the paintings themselves, we worked closely with the artist to create an immersive environment for the exhibition. Three volumes were inserted into the existing gallery, each creating a conversation with the others and the existing building:
The first engaged the storefront, blurring the fourth wall of the gallery and visually projecting out of the storefront onto the sidewalk.
The second was rotated both in plan and section as the floor slopes relative to the natural world. The walls in the space were all constructed relative to the slope, creating an unevenness while in the room. Apertures in this volume unveiled this unevenness by creating a frame of reference to the natural world.
The third was the most elevated and refined volume. Cubic in proportion and level with the outside world, this volume was rotated within the existing space. This rotation is only apparent when entering the room, seeing that the room engages a column, and thus revealing the crux of the entire system.
This elevation in space is mental and physical. Large niches within each room elevate the artwork from simply being hung on a wall to being prominently displayed within its respective volume. The rotation of each volume develops the connectedness between all elements, while allowing visitors to also access the interstitial space between them. Plywood was used to contrast with the art, while also being materially grounded in the natural world. The construction technique was deliberately exposed on the back sides of each volume and in the interstitial space between volumes, revealing clean, finished space on one side within each room and its skeleton on the other.