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Written By Anna Starkey

Ever since I read about museum director Alexander Dorner in Hans Ulrich Obrist’s book Ways of Curating, and I followed the rabbit hole to Bauhaus artist and designer Herbert Bayer, and his exhibition and museum experience concept drawings, I have been obsessed with a couple of his images….

  • an early representation of a 360, immersive installation experience

  • and a drawing of a gallery designed as a world to explore, cutting across traditional display categories

Both these were radical at the time, and while we now live in a world of digital and physical immersive experiences, there’s a feeling in these images that I think I’m still chasing somehow….

a black ink hand drawing of a representation of a human figure with a large eye for a head, standing in the middle of a 30 degree box, with rectangular panels at different angles, above around and below them, dotted arrows suggesting lines of sight
hand painted concept of a circular, domed gallery space, with sea, sky, a marooned boat, objects set as if exploring an immersive world

Herbert Bayer drawings, published in the book Why Art Museums?

Anna Starkey https://imaginaryastronaut.xyz
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