Re-Screening: Kimbell Art Museum

Film Screening

Friday 24 July 2020, 6.30pm
Venue: Online on Zoom

Library

Re-Screening of Friday Film - Kimbell Art Museum

Title: Renzo Piano Kimbell Art Museum

Date: 24th July, Friday

Time: 6.30pm

Medium: Online on Zoom

https://zoom.us/j/99971721448?pwd=RDZmZytRNTNEWk9Odm55YWt0MzdRdz09

Meeting ID: 999 7172 1448
Passcode: 740467

Lilavati Lalbhai Library welcomes you to the virtual screening of a series of 7 small documentaries on the making of the new Pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas by Renzo Piano. Piano, who is best known for his high tech public spaces, his delicate and refined approach to building deployed in museums and other buildings around the globe, will inspire you. We are re-screening the same based on request received to us.

The Kimbell Art Museum's original building was designed by Louis Kahn in 1972. The new Renzo Piano Pavilion (named by the building's owner) accommodates the museum's growing exhibition and education programmes, allowing the original Kahn building to revert to the display of the museum's permanent collection.

“Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word — fed, fertilized by many things.”
– Renzo Piano.

The documentaries have been made by Ultan Guilfoyle, an award-winning producer, director and writer based in New York. He has a particular interest in architecture and his work includes the film Frank Gehry: Building Justice, which we screened at the Library last semester.

In this series of 6 time-lapse films he has documented the construction of each element of the building to explain the processes and the use of materials. The 7th is a visual conversation between the Kahn and Piano buildings that now make up the museum.

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