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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Zhang Daqian Museum in Neijiang, China by Miralles Tagliabue EMBTSeptember 21st, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Miralles Tagliabue EMBT The construction of Zhang Daqian museum, a project designed by Benedetta Tagliabue / EMBT, has begun a few months ago in Neijiang, China. Zhang Daqian was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the 20th century. Originally known as a guohua painter, by the 1960s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter.  Image Courtesy © Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
 Image Courtesy © Miralles Tagliabue EMBT On April 2010, Excellence Group invited EMBT to design Zhang Daqian’s museum in Neijang city, the painter’s hometown. In 1956 Zhang Daqian and Pablo Picasso met in Paris, where they exchanged ideas on art and initiated their friendship. Neijiang city would like to continue this friendship between the two artists, and moreover between the two cities where they were born, Neijing and Malaga.  Image Courtesy © Miralles Tagliabue EMBT  Image Courtesy © Miralles Tagliabue EMBT The design philosophy behind the museum was to integrate the cultural essence of East and West and build expressing the past and the future. The museum should grow from the existing tea house and extend its pavilions over and around a garden that moves topographically on different levels, enclosing some of the old trees within its scheme.  Image Courtesy © Miralles Tagliabue EMBT  Image Courtesy © EMBT The motives and gestures extracted from Zhang Daqian’s painting will shape the ribs of the vertical structure, while the interpretation that the Chinese painter did of Picasso’s face will informs the geometries of the plan. The site is located at the peak of Dong Tong Lu, Yuan Mountain, west of Xi Lin monastery, south of the Tuo River. The museum will be the landmark of the city.  Image Courtesy © EMBT  Image Courtesy © EMBT  Image Courtesy © EMBT  Image Courtesy © EMBT  Image Courtesy © EMBT  Image Courtesy © Miralles Tagliabue EMBT  Image Courtesy © Miralles Tagliabue EMBT  Image Courtesy © Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
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