Posts Tagged ‘public art’
swimming pool
Here’s a fun project. Made for the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, here is essentially a fake swimming pool. Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich is the brains behind this piece. Two sheets of acrylic glass are placed a foot apart and filled with water atop a would-be swimming pool. On the top […]
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Tags: art, blue, installation, Japan, participation, people, pool, public art, water
another container
I know I just posted about Mary Iverson, but I came across this public art project she recently made & was compelled to share. After all that painting containers, Mary painted an actual container in Singapore, at the Goodman Arts Center. Shipping is an integral part of Singapore’s identity as a city. In fact, this […]
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Tags: container, installation, paint, public art, sculpture, shipping, Singapore, site-specific
many doors & millions of trash
Worthless materials are not often the preferred artistic medium, but for South Korean artist Choi Jeong-hwa they are. For instance, the first two images are from the 2009 Seoul Design Olympiad, in which the artist used the trash accumulated by the 10 million people who attended to construct the piece. What was once worthless became useful […]
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Tags: appropriation, doors, garbage, Olympics, plastic, public art, South Korea
stripes under bridge
Happy new year! Here’s a photograph of a public art piece I saw in London, under a bridge en route to the Tate Modern. Stripes of color sure bring life to a shaded tunnel area consumed by road and sidewalk. Note how the rails on the ceiling seem to continue into the painted stripes.
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Tags: London, mural, public art, street art, stripes
exposure
This 25.5m high sculpture in Lelystad, Holland was designed by Antony Gormly. His statement for Exposure tells us that he was interested in the way a still sculpture reacts to a moving world – namely, the rising sea level as a result of global warming is expected to gradually bury the sculpture. I suspect that […]
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Tags: public art, sculpture, steel, water, weather
cube circle
Here’s another public art project I found in Budapest. Colorful cubes evenly spaced make up this sphere, getting considerably warmer and larger as they approach the center. I like how the cubes continue on the bottom right of the building, too. Note the geometric structure on the left in the last photograph. Seeing a geometric […]
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Tags: budapest, geometric, mural, public art, sculpture
there are no words
Here is a guerrilla art project on a billboard in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Translation: there are no words. Had no idea a commercial avenue could be made so beautiful with text. Then again, the cut paper is a kind of absence of physical text at the same time. via.
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Tags: billboard, graffiti, public art, text
beautiful steps
The following images are of installations designed by Lang & Baumann. The first, a 2009 project that was located in Warsaw, Poland, is made of aluminium soccer goals, wood, styrofoam, and sand. I like the subtlety of the unconventional placement of the soccer goals; they seem to belong on the water. I found Comfort #4 […]
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Tags: light, public art, water
pictures of garbage
I just came across Vik Munis’s fairly recent project, Wasteland, and I had to share. A native to Brazil, Munis wanted to use his artistic practice to give more power to the people in his home country working in one of the largest open-air dumps in Latin America – Jardim Gramacho. So, he committed two […]
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Tags: appropriation, Brazil, collection, garbage, public art, social function, trash
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