Star Power: Museum as Body Electric opening: October 28, 2007
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA | Denver), will inaugurate its new facility designed by David Adjaye, with an inaugural exhibition entitled Star Power: Museum as Body Electric and two permanent commissions. The opening exhibition, Star Power: Museum as Body Electric, curated by Cydney Payton, MCA | Denver’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, will feature seven emerging and established artists from seven countries including: Carlos Amorales (Mexico), David Altmejd (Canada), Candice Breitz (South Africa), Rangi Kipa (New Zealand), Wangechi Mutu (Kenya), Chris Ofili (UK/Trinidad & Tobago) and Collier Schorr (United States).

Our Very own Peter Adjaye AKA AJ Kwame will be performing at the Star Power Meet the Artists Series, and his music is part of his brother David Adjayes exhibit Asymmetric Chamber.

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Three Sixty Records Press Release

The collaboration between David Adjaye and Peter Adjaye has now opened at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

On view: July 18, 2007 through October 28, 2007

The Studio Museum in Harlem
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Music For Architecure Vol 1
Peter Adjaye

StudioSound invites musicians, producers and musical innovators to create original compositions inspired by the works on view. From Daniel Bernard Roumains classically inspired interpretation of Chris Ofilis watercolors to DJ Scientific’s remix and reinvention of Harlem sounds, this commissioned project activates the Museum’s lobby and adds a parallel dimension to the art and artist’s on view.

This Season, we are proud to present Peter Adjaye, a.k.a AJ Kwame. Adjaye has been involved in the music industry for the last seventeen years as a producer, DJ, Composer and musician. The artists latest creative work is music for architecture [vol 1], is a composition in four parts. ” Footprints,” Darkest Light,” “Waves” and “Rise.” While the chords, beats and harmonies are created by Peter, the muasic is inspired by the buildings of David Adjaye, Peter’s Brother, and critically acclaimed architect whose works are on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Using drones, pulses, beats and ethereal pianos, Peter’s music emulates the enormity of buildings and rooms.

“The music has come about from discussions with David on the nature and reasoning behind his public buildings and art installations.” Peter says. Music For Architecture [Vol 1] is a retrospective of the works created by the two artist’s. it includes Peter’s music for the Nobel Field in the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, and soundtracks for films featuring Davids Buildings and Installations. Peter’s sonic translation of David’s Buildings transfoms glass and steel into evolving, textured soundscapes.

Currently, Peter Adjaye is turning his formidable energies and musical talents toward creating a classical hip hop album that features a symphony orchestra. Music for Architecture will be available on Three Sixty Records.

Learn more about Music For Architecture

Organized by Ali Evans, StudioSound is one of the new initiatives that expands the Museum’s mission to present contemporary black cultural producers across media.

David Adjaye
Making Public Buildings

In London, a cube floats above rows of brick buildings and blends in with the sky on a partly cloudy day. Much like a cake, it is built in layers, though these layers are each composed of vertical beams of color and light. It is the award-winning Idea Store in Whitechapel, a building that represents what the BBC calls “the library of the future.”

David Adjaye of Adjaye/Associates, architect of the Idea Store, was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Ghanaian diplomats. Since completing his studies at the Royal College of Art in 1993, the London-based architect and theorist has built or won ten public commissions, at an age before many architects have built a single structure. His projects range from private residences in London and Nanjing, China, to public commissions, such as the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. Each building exhibits a myriad of global influences, such as west African sculptural forms and electronic music. Though celebrated internationally by architecture critics for his conceptual approach to building design, Adjaye is relatively unknown in the United States.

Making Public Buildings introduces Adjaye’s architecture to American audiences by carrying viewers through his working process-from inspiration to completion-through ten projects, both built and uncompleted. Co-organized with the Whitechapel Gallery in London and designed by Adjaye/Associates, this is Adjaye’s first solo architecture exhibition in North America, though he is no stranger to museum exhibitions. Studio Museum visitors may remember Adjaye’s 2005 collaboration with Chris Ofili for Afromuses, one of his many visual art collaborations, which also include the T-B A21 Olafur Eliasson Pavilion for the 51st International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2005.

David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings [ital] has been produced by the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; in collaboration with the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Maastricht, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver and Arario Gallery, Beijing and Arario Gallery Korea. David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings is supported in part, by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown.

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