Art & Design in V&A Dundee, Scotland

You go around it and it looks like a ship. The bow, the cold air in the stern, becomes water with the sky of Scotland. In fact, this vast ocean plain plunged into the sea on the banks of the Tai River is none other than Kengo Kuma, apart from the Victoria and Albert Museum in Dengue. It is the only building in the United Kingdom built by a Japanese architect, and the first headquarters of the V&A giant away from London.

A futuristic, angular and irregular construction with jagged facets to recall the rocks of the East Coast: «Even inside we have picked up this dynamic, which has Protrusions and recesses. My inspiration always starts from the place. I have visited Scotland many times in the past, I fell in love with its landscape and nature. It is a beautiful country, ”Kuma explained before returning to Tokyo to follow the work of progress in his construction sites in the wake of the 2020 Olympics.

The new Victoria & Albert opened to the public on 15 September 2018 and hosted permanent collections and temporary exhibits of art and design, with a space specifically dedicated to the creativity of the ‘home’, from clothes to furnishings in Scotland- To the decor, to the works of Charles. Renee McIntosh, versatile mind and exponent of the so-called Glasgow movement. First exhibition Ocean Liners: Speed ​​& Style, Shared with the London office, tells the story of the world’s largest and best-known ocean liner through photographs, drawings and scale models. Legendary boats, like the RRS Sailing Ship commanded by Captain Robert Falcon Scott in the early twentieth century, and the hero of the largest waterfront redevelopment plan today are next to Kuma’s ‘Ship’.

This is the area where Tai meets the North Sea, once a hustle of jute-filled whalers and cargo and a destination in search of selfies for tourists and selfies for a few months: “I hope it’s not only from the United Kingdom Will attract many and the surrounding square becomes a meeting point for everyone ». Dundee, known as the ‘City of Discovery’ (in honor of the Antarctic Exploration RRS Discovery) and its creative scene in 2014 Was selected by the UNESCO City of Design, the most attended by the Wall Street Journal this year, the calm of European cultural tourism. It is no coincidence that in those parts they keep repeating: “Now, the wind We have sails “(now our sails have wind). And the wind of change is blowing fast and strong on the pedestal.

Dove: V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, Rego Anito
Tail. +44 1382 411 611
vam.ac.uk/dundee

Michele Falcon