The Guggenheim Museum And The Art

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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao (Biscay), Spain. It is one of several museums affiliated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists. It was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain, with an exhibition of 250 contemporary works of art. It is one of the largest museums in Spain.
The building, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, was built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city to the Cantabrian Sea. A work of contemporary architecture, it has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something", according to architectural critic Paul Goldberger. The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation encouraged the architect to design something daring and innovative. The curves on the exterior of the building were intended to appear random; the architect said that "the randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light". The interior "is designed around a large, light-filled atrium with views of Bilbao's estuary and the surrounding hills of the Basque country". The atrium, which Gehry nicknamed The Flower because of its shape, serves as the organizing center of the museum.

The building of Guggenheim Museum was featured in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough in the pre-title sequence and the Tamil film Sivaji (2007).

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao's mission is to collect, preserve, and research into modern and contemporary works of art and to present them in their historical context, offering audiences of every age and type a chance to discover the art of our time. The Museum's art program which includes presentations from the permanent collection and special exhibitions is presented in the building designed by Frank Gehry, an extraordinary architectural landmark on a par with the art treasures it houses. Conceived as part of an ambitious plan to completely transform the city of Bilbao, the Museum is the product of an exceptional partnership between the Basque Institutions and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Since it first opened to the public on October 19, 1997, the Guggenheim Bilbao has been part of the international constellation of Guggenheim Museums renowned for its iconic buildings and innovative approach to museum model that allows members to share resources, projects, and initiatives.

Tulips
1995–2004
Tulips, a bouquet of flowers conceived as colorful balloons of gigantic proportions (more than 2 meters high and 5 meters wide) belongs to the ambitious Celebration series initiated by Koons in 1994. Inspired by the generic and popular objects associated with birthday parties, holidays and other festive events, the paintings and sculptures of the Celebration series reflect Koons' constant relationship with the elements of childhood. The shiny and immaculate stainless steel surfaces of the Tulips are reminiscent of the artist's previous works such as Rabbit where an ordinary inflatable object was also transformed into something hard, shiny and symbolic. In Tulips and in the animal balloons that populate the Celebration series, as well as in his imposing Puppy (1992), Koons has manipulated the scale and materials to unsuspected limits. Tulips can evoke the great industrial forms of some minimalist sculptures but it is also an optimistic and colorful sculpture reminiscent of a cheerful parade float.

The matter of time
1994–2005
Patinable steel
The Matter of Time (The Matter of Time, 1994–2005) allows the viewer to perceive the evolution of the artist's sculptural forms, from the relative simplicity of a double ellipse to the complexity of a spiral. The last two pieces of this development are created from sections of bulls and spheres that generate different effects on the movement and perception of the viewer. These are transformed in an unexpected way as the visitor goes through them and surrounds them creating a dizzying and unforgettable feeling of space in motion. The entire room is part of the sculptural field as in other of his sculptures composed of many pieces, the artist organizes, the works with determination to move, the viewer through them and the space that surrounds them. The distribution of the works along the gallery creates corridors of different proportions and always unforeseen. In the installation there is also a progression of time.