ReviewsIn the pavilion, it's like 'you're living inside but you're outside...you're just caressed by the landscape', says Pamela in The Kramlich Residence and Collection, a monograph published this month by Hatje Cantz that chronicles the development of the architectural project., Over the last three decades, the couple, married for 37 years, have assembled an unsurpassed collection of time-based media art -- video, film, photographic slides, audio and computer art that unfold to a viewer over time.
SynopsisThis book explores the evolution of the Kramlich Residence, a home for American art collectors Richard and Pamela Kramlich and dedicated space for their pioneering collection of media art, located in the beautiful landscape of the Napa Valley, California. Designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the unique character of the Kramlich Residence developed from a laboratory of ideas by the architects, and since completion off ers artists and artworks a rare creative opportunity to respond to this dedicated home for media art. Featuring essays and conversations with historians, curators, architects and collectors, and new artist commissions, each contribution in the book draws on distinct experiences of the project, exploring how new ways of viewing and refl ection emerge from the intersections between architecture, nature, moving images, sound, and spaces to live and gather., This book explores the history of the Kramlich Residence, a home for American art collectors Richard and Pamela Kramlich and a dedicated gallery space for their pioneering collection of media art, located in the unique landscape of the Napa Valley. Built by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the Kramlich Residence has remained a laboratory of ideas not only for the architects, but also for the artists and artworks that today engage with its spaces. The book explores these ideas through a number of contributions that draw on a distinct experience of the project: that the shape, nature, installations and spaces of the building inspire a more generous exploration of media art, and altogether new ways of seeing., This book explores the history of the Kramlich Residence, a home for American art collectors Richard and Pamela Kramlich and a dedicated gallery space for their pioneering collection of media art, located in the unique landscape of the Napa Valley.