<h1><a href="../../index.html">Acconci Home</a></h1> <h2><a href="../../projects/index.html">All Projects</a></h2> <h2><a href="../../threads/index.html">All Threads</a></h2> <!--<h2><a href="/acconci/dev/views/">All Views</a></h2>--> <h2>04</h2> <p>KENNY SCHACHTER’S conTEMPorary GALLERY Charles Lane, New York, NY 2002 Contractor: G.B. Construcution L.L.C. Fabricator: Amsterdam Metal Works Site: A gallery as part of the gallery-dealer’s home. Project: A metal wall passes from outside to inside; a section hinges to make the door – the address is cut out of the edge. Inside, the upper half pivots to make window shutters while the bottom half stretches into a reception desk and bench. Since the gallery is meant to be temporary, lasting no more than three years, the space is not renovated but covered over: expanded metal walls make a universal hanging surface – you don’t have to make holes in the walls, the walls are all holes. The gallery is wrapped up in itself: walls twist to become ceilings, and vice versa -- fluorescent lights travel from wall to ceiling and back to wall -- the top of the plasterboard wall, that separates gallery from children’s playroom, twists to make a projection screen, inside the gallery. The gallery is built & un-built & re-built from show to show: wall panels pivot out to make sculpture pedestals, video stands, seats in the middle of art -- panels pivot down from the ceiling to make auxiliary walls. The expanded metal rises up the wall in the stairwell; it twists to make a smaller gallery upstairs. The steel wall that separates the gallery splits & warps into desk & chairs & shelves for the office; the expanded metal wall panels fold down to make bookshelves. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/schachter_contemporary/index.html">Schachter ConTEMPorary</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2002/index.html">2002</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Adjustable-Adaptable-Convertible/index.html">Adjustable-Adaptable-Convertible</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Bend-Fold/index.html">Bend-Fold</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Buildings/index.html">Buildings</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Built/index.html">Built</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Dar%C3%ADo%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez/index.html">Darío Núñez</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Gallery-Museum/index.html">Gallery-Museum</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Interiors/index.html">Interiors</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Peter%20Dorsey/index.html">Peter Dorsey</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Schachter%20ConTEMPorary/index.html">Schachter ConTEMPorary</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Shift-Pivot/index.html">Shift-Pivot</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Split-Separate-Strips%20and%20Strands/index.html">Split-Separate-Strips and Strands</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Stephen%20Roe/index.html">Stephen Roe</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Twist-Warp-Morph/index.html">Twist-Warp-Morph</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/United%20States/index.html">United States</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="http://studio.stamen.com/acconci/dev/img/80/SCT04_S.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/80/04_S.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/80/04_S.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>