Hayward Gallery

The Hayward Gallery is an exhibition building in London - mainly for modern and contemporary art.

Hayward Gallery and Southbank Centre

The Hayward Gallery is part of the South Bank Centre - an area in central London with major cultural venues on the South Bank of the River Thames Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Royal National Theatre and British Film Institute. As part of a change of name "South Bank Centre " to the " South Bank Centre " in early 2007, finally, the Hayward Gallery has been renamed - it was called by early 2011 " The Hayward ". The building was named after Sir Isaac Hayward, a former director of the London County Council, which preceded the Great London Council. Joanna Drew was the founding director. Ralph Rugoff is currently Director ( since 2006 ).

Exhibitions

The Hayward Gallery holds three to four major exhibitions, of which concentrate on modern or contemporary art and has no permanent exhibition. From 1968 to 1986, the gallery was operated by the Arts Council of Great Britain, until the line on the South Bank Centre was transferred. Unlike other exhibition venues in the UK that receive government support, the Hayward Gallery requires an entry fee, as it is exclusively presents temporary exhibitions and usually requires admission to temporary exhibitions in the UK - in museums, where the permanent exhibition can be visited free of charge.

The Hayward Gallery has presented in the past exhibitions from various art periods - including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Edvard Munch and French Impressionists. Lately, the exhibitions but rather concentrated on contemporary art, which also occurred in relation to the premises and the massive concrete structure of the building - such as the work of Dan Flavin and Antony Gormley. In addition, here are two introductory exhibitions took place with exhibits of the Arts Council Collection: British Art 1940-1980 and How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art

Pipilotti Rist: Eyeball Massage, September 28, 2011 - January 8, 2012
Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, October 14, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms, October 7, 2008 - January 18, 2009
Antony Gormley: Blind Light, May 17 - August 19, 2007
Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, January 19th - April 2nd, 2006
Roy Lichtenstein, February 26 - May 16, 2004
Douglas Gordon, November 1, 2002 - January 5, 2003
William Eggleston, July 11 - September 22, 2002
Paul Klee, January 17 - April 1, 2002

Architecture

The Hayward Gallery was designed by Higgs and Hill and opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 9 July 1968. During the construction of much concrete was used, which is typical of the architectural style of Brutalism. The original concept was designed by the team leader Norman Engleback - along with the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room as an extension of the South Bank Centre. In addition, the architect Ron Herron and Warren Chalk were of Building Authority ( Department of Architecture and Civic Design ) of the Greater London Council involved - both were members of the established later architects group Archigram. Warren Chalk prepared the site plan and the transition bridges on the 1st floor, while Ron Herron worked on the acoustics for the Queen Elizabeth Hall. First, Alan Waterhouse worked and then Dennis Crompton on the design for the Hayward Gallery.

The contract awarded to the architects was to create five exhibition areas: two areas should occur distributed within the building on two floors and three outer surfaces in the form of massive concrete trays should be created for the presentation of sculptures. At the same time, the Hayward Gallery to house the Arts Council Collection. The top exhibit space receive natural light through glass pyramids on the flat roof of the building. A kinetic light sculpture is permanently in the exhibition building. This responds to the wind force on the roof of the shaft for the visitor lift and comes from an exhibition in the year 1971.

The outer surfaces of the presentation of sculptures against the backdrop of the London skyline have turn out to be impractical later, so that the land has been hardly used and normally were not open to the public - except for the " Blind Light " exhibition with works by Antony Gormley in year 2007. the roof terrace on the south and the transitional bridge to the foyer of the Queen Elizabeth Hall are not normally open to the public, but were opened in 2011 for the "Summer of Fun Festival ".

Despite its seemingly uncompromising form of the building responds to the environment. This is about an architectural artifice of the building: Due to the different lines of the exterior walls on the ground floor and the height of the transition bridges the different axes of the Hayward Gallery and the Royal Festival Hall to be brought under one umbrella. Another example is the transition bridge on the Belvedere Road with access from the Waterloo Bridge, towards the west is getting wider: on the one hand, it follows the course of Belvedere Road and on the other hand, it adapts to the steps of the outdoor terraces of the Hayward Gallery and follows the outer walls of the exhibition building. Last but not least the outline of the sculpture court in the southwest corner reflects the change in the angle of the building between Waterloo Bridge and Festival Square.

The two stories in the exhibition hall are connected by two concrete stairwells. These stairwells and restrooms on the mezzanine are housed in a concrete square - between the eastern and western part of the exhibit space. One of these staircases going up to the street level, where there is an emergency exit to Belvedere Road. The other staircase leads to an almost hidden entrance foyer, which is located on the north side of the building. This access is located below the actual main foyer and the gangway bridge the north facade as well as the car park and near the projecting Purcell Room auditorium. In three concrete manholes in the middle of the building are the visitor and freight elevator and the building services. In the southwest corner of the building is located on the street level, a control center. The car park occupies the major part of the basement. An equipment room is located in the east end of the basement - above the parking garage - with a large concrete exhaust stack at the Waterloo Bridge.

Originally the building had only a very small foyer with cast-aluminum doors - similar to the doors of the Queen Elizabeth Hall. 2003 this foyer was rebuilt. Here, a larger foyer was created with a glass front, which was designed by the architectural firm Haworth Tompkins. At the same time an oval glass pavilion (designed by Dan Graham) was placed above a new cafe at the east end, where once there were offices. Previously a store has already been established in the north -west corner of the lower exhibition space.

The transitional bridge connecting the Hayward Gallery with the Hungerford Bridge was demolished in the spring of 1999. This has restricted the access to the Festival Square and the end of the former Bridge appears truncated strange. This impression is verschlimmer by the positioning of the car park and the loading dock for the deliverer - a legacy of the original design, which provided for a vertical separation of pedestrians and traffic.

2011, the Hayward Gallery was added to the list of World Monuments Fund, notwithstanding the fact that this building is not in the UK under a preservation order.

Future

The South Bank Centre and Arts Council discuss the future of the Hayward - building along with the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room, located between the Hayward Gallery and the River Thames.

From an architectural competition was designed by Richard Rogers was selected in the early 1990s. It stipulated to span all three buildings with an undulating glass roof. This would also have the Royal Festival Hall connected to the Waterloo Bridge. However, this design was not pursued due to the high cost, since one would otherwise have been to rely on the National Lottery takes over a large part of the financing. At the same time, there was resistance from the Twentieth Century Society, who complained that the arrangement and the interaction of the building would suffer through the glass roof.

Hayward Gallery

Hayward Gallery and Southbank Centre

Exhibitions

Architecture

Future

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