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Exhibition " Les Trésors du Nouveau Monde "
Bruxelles, Musées Royaux du Belgique,

client Asbl Trésors du Nouveau Monde

size 1800 sqm 

The pre-discovery pieces coming from all the american continent have astonishing quality and rather small dimensions as unifying factors but there is such a difference of materials and consistence that a kind of common framing was required not to get lost in the Musées Royaux huge space.
This is particularly true for the extreme north and extreme south countries art pieces that are frequently small, light, and almost unperceivable.
We consequently thought of creating a continuous labyrinthic wall to completely detach from the ambience both the artworks disposed inside the wall (visible through windows-like showcases), and the artworks freely and stereometrically disposed in the space