Model, west elevation, Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, architects, September 16, 2008, photo courtesy of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA.
The Pavilion, which was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano (Centre Georges Pompidou), will debut with three exhibitions:
- Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection will feature about 125 works of art from Lynda and Stewart Resnick, with an emphasis on both modern furniture and sculpture, and European paintings from the 16th through the 19th centuries.
- Olmec: Masterworks of Ancient Mexico will center on stone sculptures from Mexico from as far back as 1400 BC, and will coincide with the centennial of the Mexican Revolution and the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence.
- Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915 will examine more than 200 years of the evolution of clothing style and techniques, including items such as three-piece suits worn by European royalty and French Revolution-era men’s vests.
The Pavilion is part of LACMA’s Phase II design transformation and unification, and is the first major addition to LACMA since the 72,000-square-foot Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) concluded Phase I when it opened its doors in February 2008. BCAM was also designed by Piano.
