The Pritzker laureate’s maquettes feature in a new Arles show, alongside works by David Lynch and Tino Sehgal

Frank Gehry's models at The Solaris Chronicles in Arles

The great Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry often exhibits his work in a gallery setting. He is, after all, represented by the Gagosian, and has been showing his beautiful fish lamps at various Gagosian galleries over the past year or so. However, even he was surprised to see a selection of his building models brought to life in an old train-repair yard in southern France.

The experimental intervention is housed in what will become LUMA Arles, an art and culture campus. Gehry is designing its centrepiece - the Arts Resource Centre – which, come 2018, will contain research facilities, workshops and artist studios. In the meantime, LUMA Arles’ founder, the Swiss collector Maja Hoffmann, has given another space on the site, the Atelier de la Mécanique, over to Gehry’s greatest hits.

Cai Guo-Qiang's pyrotechnics at The Solaris Chronicles

The Solaris Chronicles show, which runs till 26 October, examines Gehry’s creative vision. It features large-scale models of, among others, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museums in Bilbao and Abu Dhabi, the National Art Museum of China, and the new Facebook West Campus Building in Menlo Park, USA......Continue Reading

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