Marciano Art Foundation opens in Los Angeles with Olafur Eliasson, Albert Oehlen, Peppi Bottrop

The Marciano Art Foundation, founded by Maurice and Paul Marciano of GUESS? fame, opened a permanent 9,000 m² space in Los Angeles in 2017. The building, originally a Masonic temple designed by Millard Sheets in 1961, was renovated by Kulapat Yantrasast of wHY. In 2018, the foundation inaugurated with three exhibitions: Olafur Eliasson's 'Reality projector' (through August 2018), an immersive light installation referencing the building's theatrical past; Albert Oehlen and Peppi Bottrop's 'Line packers' (through June 2018), featuring Oehlen's early computer works (1992-2008) and Bottrop's coal drawings on Fermacell, a metaphor for the Ruhr region's mining history. The Marciano brothers, Moroccan-born French residents, moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and built a significant contemporary art collection including works by Ed Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, and Sam Francis.