If the presence of a tractor on Fifth Avenue seems absurdly out of place, that is because Rem Koolhaas wants city dwellers to stop neglecting the other 98 percent of the Earth’s surface that is not urban.
Opposite is Central Park, carefully coiffured and terraformed to resemble a natural landscape. That is quickly brought home exactly by the colossal object confronting visitors at the entrance to the New York museum: a 35,000-pound super-high-tech Deutz-Fahr tractor, placed next to a module in which 100 pounds of tomatoes are being grown weekly during the course of the exhibition beneath the optimized light of seemingly-pink LEDs.These two machines - impressive, and somewhat intimidating - are messengers from the countryside. The museum is currently closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but content related to Countryside, The Future is available at /countryside.īy any standard, the exhibition that the Guggenheim Museum has organised in collaboration with the architect Rem Koolhaas and his think tank, AMO, is unusual. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the arc of its fenders echoing the curves of Frank Lloyd Wright’s building. DEUTZ-FAHR 9340 TTV Warrior at Guggenheim Museum, as entrance icon to the exhibition “Countryside, The Future”.Īs of February 20th, our heavy-duty green industrial tractor, remotely operable by computer, is parked on Fifth Avenue, and sits outside the main entrance of the Solomon R.
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