Time to stop

OTN’s Style Editor has flagged stop motion movies of exhibition installations as a design phenomenon to leave behind us in 2008. We’ve seen them at the Auckland Art Gallery, where they’re also doing the development of their new galleries (the stop motion craze is huge in architecture) and Best of 3 has spotted Sol Lewitt being de-installed and more recently Installation of the Permanent Collection and Then Some at the Modern Art Museum in Forth Worth. Last week we saw yet another one. This time it was of Franz West’s The Ego and the Id being installed in the Baltimore Museum of Art. Initially we agreed with Best of 3 that these stop motion accumulations were fun, but it's 2009, time to move on.
Image: Franz West The Ego and the Id installed in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s survey To Build a House You Start with the Roof