EXHIBIT /// RAS GALLERY /// TIL NOV 11
Take the highway B14 in the southwest of Germany. This road will lead you to the city of Stuttgart. Just before entering the city, you'll be impacted on one side by an amazing new building that will make you stop and have a look for sure. This is the Mercedes-Benz Museum, recently inaugurated in May of 2006 and designed by UNStudio.
You probably can't go to Stuttgart right now to enjoy the museum and the 160 Mercedes cars inside it, but if you go to the Ras Gallery's "Buy Me a Mercedes Benz" exhibition during the next weeks (till 11 november), you'll get the picture of the meaning of this impressive grey mass of cement.
9 floors, 16.000m2 of exhibition space and more than 450.000 visitors per year prove that the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart makes everyone forget that they are in a museum. None of the problems that make the traditional museums less and less sustainable ocur. The works around you belong to no other culture than your own because they are much closer to you than most of today's art.
In addition to the exhibition space, the museum includes a store, a restaurant, a museum for children and a cinema. The organizational structure is based on the visitors' continuously changing direction and the dynamic interchange between the interior and the outside. As the creators of the building affirm: "The architect will be concerned with dressing the future, speculating, anticipating coming events and holding up a mirror to the world".
Before leaving the exhibition, spend some minutes taking a look at hte book that has been published on the architectonic project. Inside, you'll have the opportunity to see all the documents that gave origin to the idea of the museum; the book explains how it's all been expertly combined and interlaced to end finally with this remarkable building, which is destined to become part of books of architecture and unieversity lessons in the future.
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