Artists Jenny Holzer and Giuseppe Penone have been commissioned by the Louvre Abu Dhabi to create installations for the permanent collection which respond to the architecture of the Jean Nouvel-designed building, The National UAE reports. The museum, part of a 30-year agreement between the city of Abu Dhabi and the French government, is set to open in 2017 on the Saadiyat Island cultural district.
Penone has created a four-part installation, Germination, which addresses the relationships between humanity, art and the natural world, while Holzer is presenting three engraved marble panels drawing from historic texts (an ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet; a quote from Michel de Montaigne; and a passage from the medieval Islamic polymath Ibn Khaldun’s 14th-century Muqaddimah) each to be installed on an external wall of the museum’s galleries.
17 November 2016.
