Art:1 Galery Analysis

Art : 1 GaleryAnalysis

By: AdriansyahHarry David Halim Rama Ohara

Art:1 Gallery, Kemayoran Direction

1. Direction

The exhibition room at first floor needs some changes or addition like installing an or more partition or something else, to create a new context like its trying to tell some story.

When the room set with pictures hanging in the 4 x 4 walls, the direction become unclear or just make one way direction. The direction become unclear when the guest doesn’t know where to start, there is no beginning. And there is one direction when the guest just the walls where there are pictures hanging. This setting just make one story cause no elements that can generate a new story or even have no story at all.

Art:1 Gallery, Kemayoran Direction

With the partition wall installed, the room separated. This wall generate a new story and insight inside the same room.

The structure also can make a connection between two different stories and spaces.

Art:1 Gallery, Kemayoran Direction

Painting of Paddy Field ‌.

Before planted

Narration (Text) Painting of ‌.

After planted Ready to harvest

The partition walls that installed in the second floor are used to hanged more paintings inside the room. Beside of that, this partition wall bring the story also show the direction flows. Human interpretation will automaticly calls for go to the words first then go with pictures, depending where and what they see first.

Art:1 Gallery, Kemayoran Direction

A panting hanging at staircase can make a direction, a continuation of the certain story in the room to room next floor or section of the room or an a beginning of a new story to room upstairs.

Art:1 Gallery, Kemayoran Movement

2. Movement The position of the paintings, the set of lined paintings, can make a story. A story can generate direction where to start. That direction will trigger human interpretation to what we call movement.

As the setting of the room squared, paintings hanged lined up along the walls, the direction will assumed along where the paintings lined. The movement that created will be straight line or follow the shape of the wall.

Installation of the partition make it different. As the wall separated the space and connect the different story of two sides of the room, the movement will be more complicated and have more variation. The movement can start by follow the sides of the 1st story the move to another story or visa versa.

Art:1 Gallery, Kemayoran Movement

Painting of Paddy Field ‌.

Before planted

After planted

Ready to harvest

Same goes as the direction, the movement where we decide where to move first is from the instinct. That is happened at the paddy fields painting trick. The setting of the painting is lined from where the paddy field before planted, planted and finally ready for harvest.

When the human brain catch the information, human will move from the relation and changes of the story that painting try to tell.

Art:1 Gallery, Kemayoran Movement

The Placing of the painting at the access of stairs case can direct guest to move go to next floor. The painting indicates there are a new of continue of a story from current floor.

But the placing of painting at the main access to the next floor can affect the movement of guest, in this case the crowd in front of the painting. Guests that admiring that painting will stay there for a while, and not just one guest will do the same thing. The more people gather, the more crowd the stairs, the other guest that want to go down or up will be blocked by the crowd.

Crowd

Art:1 Gallery, Kemayoran Movement

In this floor, is just the same as the first floor, empty, less filled that the second floor. The paintings are hanged along the wall that create oval like room. The movement that created in this floor is just the same, following the lined paintings, but there is more than that.

The placing of the display box in the middle of the room, make the flow of the movement will go to the middle because of curiosity factor that human have. The desire to want to know what kind of thing that displayed there.

The second is following the source where light come inside the room. This floor is set pretty dark that we can clearly see two opening that let the light in. The movement here is created by following the lined picture to the opening, creating the interpretation to follow the light.

Art:1 Gallery, Kemayoran Movement

In the third floor there is three display box that placed in the middle of the room.

The distance of each display are 150 cm (more or less). That distance are just enough for guest to admire while having their space they need like standing or lowering their back to take a closer look. Same goes to free space on the most right and left side of the three display.

But when we see the other kind of guest like guest that using backpack or a bag, while back to back seeing the display. The space that taken by these kind of guest is more larger than regular guest.

When the third person go in the middle of these guest, he/she will have problem with the movement cause other guest take and block the middle access, the result when he/she pass in the middle, the will bump the other gust bag/backpack.

Art:1 Gallery, Kemayoran Interaction

3. Interaction

The interaction in for all of the building floors and elements is catogarized low, because there is no specific technology use like touch screen information, or LCD presentation.

At the base floor, there is a information table that use tv screen as information source, but the use of that is so limited. The narration on the wall in each wall can also act as interaction, the narration will act as a story starter, that will read by guest to feel and experiencing what painter want to see, hear or feel before goes to the paintings.

Exhibition Design, Architecture / Interior Architecture University of Indonesia, 2014