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much, he refuses to call himself a functionalist but rather
an architect. Speaking about the purpose and content
of the Museum, Franić would say that the Museum of
Contemporary Art has a desire to be“ a lounge of New
Zagreb”.
The whole ground floor is completely opened to visitors;
there will be, besides museum shops and a restaurant,
a multifunctional hall, an information centre, while the
remaining parts will be used for outdoor exhibitions. On
the first floor there will be other exhibition spaces as well
as the permanent collection on display. The restaurant is
running through entire museum from the bottom to the
very top with a terrace opened for the public. Besides,
Franić designed three apartments for artists in residence,
two small and one larger, which are usual accessory of
museums of this size and level.
Asked if it is real to expect the Museum’s opening next
year, Franić said it was, and that it would be attractive
and special. Namely, the bottom idea of the Town
Administration is that the Museum is far beyond to be
merely a town museum, but should have much broader
impact. Although its significance might be huge, Franić
says that such projects are typical and frequent abroad,
and that he alone has so much job to do not even having
a time “to dream his own dream”.
In the introduction of one small book published during
the International Conference of Museums of Contemporary
Art Directors, held in June 22 to 24, 2006 in Zagreb,
Ms. Snježana Pintarić, the director of the Museum
of Contemporary Art described the significance of the
building in following words: ”When the Museum of Contemporary
Art in September 2007 opens the doors of its
new building within the wings of Franić’s meander, the
public, for the first time, will have the occasion to see the
permanent collection of contemporary art from 1950 till
nowadays. At the same time, the public will have an opportunity
to see our documentation archives while the
museum will enhance its activity by additional programs
like multimedia-hall, educational centre and audio-visual
studio. Moving from the old part of town, from very
moderate conditions which have limited our activities,
to the new part of the town in the building with a possibility
not only for adequate keeping and exhibiting our
collections, but, moreover, for having daily occurrences
through various programmes –reading sessions and
painting workshops, film projections and theatre– for us
in the Museum it is a huge challenge, in both sense - expert
and personal”.
Unfortunately, new controversies arouse once again
few weeks ago. Now, while the building is entering its
completion phase and the former controversies about
the tender and the best location being almost forgotten,
it is about the display of permanent Museum’s collection.
The controversy is between Snježana Pintarić
and Zvonko Maković, an art historian, who is commissioned
to create a concept of permanent collection
which will be housed in the new building. Despite everything,
all agree about the significance of the Museum,
and we hope that the Museum will not become merely
the lounge of New Zagreb but such a lounge where
families do not quarrel among each other and that will
make Croatia ready to accomplish all her potentials in
contemporary art. Exactly like the New Tendencies had
during sixties of the last century.
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