March 13—August 31, 2014
Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Splendide Hotel Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Press Release
Taking the date of construction of the Palacio de Cristal as point of departure, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster creates a complex, intuitive web of literary, cultural, musical, and historical associations around books, objects, discoveries and their authors and readers, around the year 1887—the year is peopled with birthdays, publishing dates and moments of scientific discovery. In the center of the Palacio de Crystal a room closely echoing the formal language of the pavilion that surrounds it has...