Francois de menil wikipedia indonesia

Francois de Menil’s design embraced the complexity of the frescoes’ history by addressing their spiritual tradition, callous fragmentation, and careful restoration to the status of living icons.

Through the placement of an inner chapel encased in an outer structure - a reliquary, of sorts - the design connects past with future, while creating a meditative awareness of the present.

Francois de menil wikipedia indonesia

To achieve this result, Francois de Menil made a systematic study of traditional Byzantine church architecture and researched the spatial relationships that dictated the frescoes’ installation in their chapel of origin at Lysi.

The placement of the paintings in the interior chapel in Houston precisely mirrors that of Lysi, the perimeters of which are outlined in translucent frosted glass walls lit from below. These walls, held together by a series of cross-shaped clips, appear to float—an ensemble that produces an ephemeral structure that has been sutured toget