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Installation
Serpentine Gallery
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012
Fri 1 Jun '12 - Sun 14 Oct '12
Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London W2 3XA
The Serpentine Gallery is proud to announce that Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei have created the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
This year's Pavilion takes visitors beneath the Serpentine's lawn to explore the hidden history of its previous Pavilions. Eleven columns characterising each past Pavilion and a twelfth column representing the current structure supports a floating platform roof 1.4 metres above ground. The Pavilion's interior is clad in cork, a sustainable building material chosen for its unique qualities, echoing the excavated earth. Taking an archaeological approach, the architects have created a design that will inspire visitors to look beneath the surface of the park as well as back in time across the ghosts of the earlier structures.
The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion operates as a public space and as a venue for Park Nights, the Gallery's high-profile programme of public talks and events. Connecting to the archaeological focus of the Pavilion design, Park Nights will culminate in October with the Serpentine Gallery Memory Marathon, the latest edition of the annual Serpentine Marathon series conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist, now in its seventh year. The Marathon series began in 2006 with the 24-hour Serpentine Gallery Interview Marathon; followed by the Experiment Marathon in 2007; the Manifesto Marathon in 2008; the Poetry Marathon in 2009, the Map Marathon in 2010 and the Garden Marathon in 2011.
The 2012 Pavilion has been purchased by Usha and Lakshmi N. Mittal and will enter their private collection after it closes to the public in October 2012.
Entry:
Free
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2012/02
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