The Angel Orensanz Museum Opens In New York

Next Wednesday June 7th, the Angel Orensanz Foundation will celebrate the official opening of the Angel Orensanz Museum in the foundation’s headquarters at 172 Norfolk Street in New York.

The opening shall begin with a meeting of the members of the Foundation’s Advisory Board followed by a private reception. The Advisory Board, comprised of personalities of the art world from several different countries shall approve the appointment of Frank Gerard Godlewski as the Museum Curator. Godlewski received a degree in Architecture from The Cooper Union in New York and pursued a Dottorato di Ricerca at the Facoltà di Architettura of Venice, Italy.

Among the members of the Advisory Board can be mentioned Alexander Borovsky, Curator of the Ludvig and the Russian Museum of St. Petersburg, Susan Peik, President of the Friends of Friends of Schinkel, The University of Minnesota, and Margherida Ruas, Director of the Water Museum of Lisbon (Portugal).

The permanent exhibition consists of a display of drawings by Orensanz from various periods as well as sculpture in metal, ceramics and photos. Video pieces and documentaries about the artist are in a reserved area for the immediate viewing of informative materials to showcase Orensanz’s exhibitions in other parts of the world. The exhibition is situated on two ample floors of the building named for the foundation at 172 – 176 Norfolk Street in Lower Manhattan. Weekdays, the collection shall be regularly opened to the public from 11AM to 6 PM except Saturdays and Sundays.

The exhibition space is privileged not only with a view of the foundation building’s manificent historic interior but also enjoys a view of Lower Manhattan.

The Angel Orensanz Foundation, established in 1992, produces an art magazine, “Artscape” as well as a weekly television program, “Arts from the Orensanz.” The Angel Orensanz Art Foundation International Prize shall grant it’s fifth annual prize this year.

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