The Bachelor Pad Museum — Daniel Tuomey
Open sign; aluminium, wind; 2019
The Bachelor Pad Museum was a year long project from December 2018-December 2019, comprised of six months research into modernist house museums followed by six months running a museum in my flat in Rotterdam Zuid.
Gallery 1
The bachelor’s bedroom, with a window onto Wolphaertstraat.
A Guide to The Collection; video, 30 mins; 2019
Visitors watch A Guide to The Collection
A visitor ascends to the mezzanine
Two picture postcards
Study for a Rietveld/Bosch collab; paper, paint, cardboard, glue; 2019
Study for a public private house; paper, paint, cardboard, glue, pens and pencils, pins, dowels; 2019
Two Pieces of Painted Wood; text; 2019
Foyer
Where the visitors entered, and where the weird geometries of the museum hinge together.
Study for the mezzanines’ extruded geometries, and points of light penetration; paper, pens and pencils, pins; 2019
The bachelor offering an archaeological explanation for the floor paint around the pivot point, touching on previous tenants’ decisions
Study for a dream; paper, pencil, pins; 2019
Gallery 2
The bachelor’s sitting room, with a window onto Gouwstraat.
Installation view of Gallery 2
my point four child; plasterboard, chalk, tubelight, timber, cushions, concealed speakers; 2019
A visitor ascends to the upper mezzanine
Study for a dialogue with my point four child; pencil, paint, cardboard, paper, skewers, pins; 2019
Untitled study (belly building); watercolour, paper, hot glue, spaghetti; 2019
Study for the bachelor stripped bare, even; watercolour, paper, cardboard, spaghetti, pins; 2019
Untitled study (after David Byrne, sort of); watercolour, paper, pins, hot glue, spaghetti; 2019
Detail of the mezzanine’s support structure
The Bachelor Pad Museum was kindly supported by an O&O (research & development) subsidy from CBK Rotterdam.
