NEW IS OLD, 2003 Like most buildings
in Warsaw that look old, Ujadazdowski Castle (which houses the Center
for Contemporary Art) is in fact recently rebuilt. The only original structure
in the Center’s complex is the Laboratorium building which opposite
the Castle looks much newer although somewhat dilapidated. New is Old
take a disused storage space in Laboratorium and tries both to make it
look its age and to raise it up to the castle’s aesthetic level.
The walls of the space are painted with watercolors to simulate age. The
outline of a neoclassical decorative architectural scheme is painted in
white on the inside and exterior walls. The decoration is completed by
a series of seven 6” x 7” oil paintings in faux old frames
of polaroids of rooms in the castle to which the public has no access
and where the modernity of the castle is evident. |
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