This was the period in which his career expanded to stage productions (his first musical work, "Rosa: A Horse Opera" was mounted in 1994) and high-concept museum and citywide installations; the films look cluttered and secondary in comparison.
"Many city managers have been seduced by the fantasy that a high-concept museum, designed by a starchitect, will turn around its urban fortunes in a similar way," said the organisers of the rival competition, a group of independent arts organisations that have come together under the banner of Next Helsinki.
VENICE — The Renaissance rediscovery of ancient art and architecture also led to the revival of another Greek and Roman concept — the museum.
They have designed few durable buildings, preferring high-concept performances, museum installations and other temporary structures.
And it has to adjust to the modern concept of museums as places that actively lure the public, not just wait for them to come.
TAN: The concept of museums is evolving fast.
Depicting outmoded evolutionary patterns and concepts via museum exhibits, such as fossils horses exemplifying orthogenesis, not only communicates outmoded knowledge but also likely contributes to general misconceptions about evolution for natural history museum visitors.
It's incredibly hard to fight for specialised staff when councillors have no concept of what museum staff do and believe a display case equals a museum.
Quality has become a dirty word, an antidemocratic concept, according to museum critics, but quality, and the ability to explain it eloquently, are still what separate museums from shopping malls.
Togetherness is a fresh concept in the museum world.
Charmatz himself regards the concept of the museum as a liberating one.
