outfitting of the “The Museums of Louis I. Kahn” axhibition, – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
(with N.Marras graphics Lapiswerk)

Curated by Patricia Cummings Loud, the exhibition about the Louis Kahn museums, presented within the activities sponsored by Bologna Arte Architetura, is developed out of the 1990 The Museums James Stirling exhibition. It features in fact the four major Kahn’s works (the Yale University Art Gallery of New Haven; the Kimbell Art Museum of Forth Worth; the Yale Center for British Art, also in New Haven; and the project for the De Meni Museum) and presented original materials (drawings, sketches, photographs) and models specially made by Igor Silic for the Bologna show. A significant feature of the installation was its faithful reinterpretation of an extraordinary illuminated ceiling designed by Kahn, which isolated the gallery (as in the previous exhibition) as a temporary but independent exhibition area. A dimmed ante-room preceded the exhibit to accustom visitors to the lighting. The small number of works made it possible to provide a simple guided route through the display. This formed a square in which each wall could be devoted to a single work of architecture, which was flanked by vertical panels bearing graphics and information. The panels ran the full height of the room and were spatially coordinated with the stands used to display the models. The whole exhibition was bathed in a warm atmosphere created by the lighting and colors.