Museum interior archetypes Arzio Bramasta Zikri Alif Heru Bima P. A. Dwi Prasetyo
white box An undecorated space with white walls, white ceiling and a continuous neutral floor, originated in 1927 as clean envelope, a bare white architecture. An influential 1930 MoMA exhibition secured it as a museum aesthetic. The White Box, the dominant twentieth-century practice regarding art museum interior design and architecture, makes objects untouchable and exclusive by displaying collections on a null white wall as a neutral canvas. "Theory Studies: Contemporary Museum and Exhibition Spaces," traced the practice from its use in the 1930s by the Museum of Modern Art as a perfect environment for the undisturbed presentation of art to the use of the white cube internationally
The New Museum of Contemporary Arts, NYC
red room Red Room, one of the oldest European archetypes, is a room in which all walls are rendered in a monochromatic red, a technique often used to create contrast and autonomy between one room and another. If Red Room describes a space filled with red light, then it is a subset of Color Flood. A Red Room is a gallery space in which all of the exhibition walls are painted red or slight variations of red. In these Red Rooms, the color red conveys a noble, imperial quality of each painting. Red has been appropriated for exhibition spaces in museums throughout time, especially when the objects were associated with 14th to 18th century European paintings, such as English, French, Dutch, and Italian drawings. This provocative and energizing quality has often been used in children's museums and science museums, but more rarely in art museums. In contemporary art museums, however, designers or artists sometimes employ this provocative, expressive quality of red for their contemporary installations
Red Room, White House, Washington DC
The Louvre, Paris
The Rubin Museum of Art
Denver Art Museum
NYC
Denver