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Anne Bak
November 22, 2011 7:33 PM
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Anish Kapoor: "Cloud Gate", sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park, 2004 Made up of 168 stainless steel plates welded together, its highly polished exterior has no visible seams. It is 33 by 66 by 42 feet (10 by 20 by 13 m), and weighs 110 short tons (100 t; 98 long tons).
Said to have been inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture's surface reflects and distorts the city's skyline. Visitors are able to walk around and under Cloud Gate's 12-foot (3.7 m) high arch. On the underside is the "omphalos" (Greek for "navel"), a concave chamber that warps and multiplies reflections. The sculpture builds upon many of Kapoor's artistic themes, and is popular with tourists as a photo-taking opportunity for its unique reflective properties. www.anishkapoor.com/
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Anne Bak
November 22, 2011 7:03 PM
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November 22, 2011 6:41 PM
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Roxy Paine "Maelstrom", 2009, Metropolitan Museum's Roof Garden, New York Maelstrom asserts that man and human culture are not removed from, but very much a part of nature. The sculpture’s network of branches mimics organic and biological systems as well as industrial systems, such as plumbing and piping, thus pointing to the connection between the natural world and the built environment.
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Anne Bak
November 22, 2011 5:50 PM
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Cal Lane: “Sweet Crude”, 2009
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November 22, 2011 4:44 PM
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Aleksandra Lawicka-Cuper: "Insubordination", 2011, Gdansk, Festival "Rozdroza Wolnosci"
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Anne Bak
November 22, 2011 3:41 PM
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Listening to the sounds of garden.
Jann Rosen Queralt: "Cultivus Loci: Aero", 1998, Europos Parkas - Open Air Museum of Contemporary Scupture, Vilnius, Lithuania
Detail: Ear Trumpet (40’ x 15’ x 3’) aluminum, brass, and painted steel http://jannrosen-queralt.com
http://www.europosparkas.lt/
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Anne Bak
November 20, 2011 8:25 PM
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Yorga, installation 2010, Le château de la Hunaudaye, Bretagne www.yorga.org/
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November 22, 2011 7:28 PM
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November 22, 2011 6:45 PM
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Roxy Paine: "Conjoined", Madison Square Park, New York City, 2007
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November 22, 2011 5:59 PM
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Greyworld: "The Source", an eight storey high kinetic sculpture, London Stock Exchange, 2004 A cube of 9x9x9 (729 in total) spherical balls are suspended on strings that stretch 32 metres up to the top of the main atrium of the newly designed building. These balls, controlled by a computer running Python scripts, can reposition themselves independently of each other, forming dynamic shapes and fluid-like motions that reflects the nature of the stock market itself. Each morning, upon the opening of the London Stock Exchange, the balls awake from their cube arrangement and begin to form patterns. Similarly, at the end of each day’s trading, the balls fall back into their cube arrangement, and an animated arrow is shown using the blue LEDs inside the balls to show how the stock market performed on that particular day. http://greyworld.org/
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Anne Bak
November 22, 2011 5:01 PM
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Anish Kapoor: "Marsyas", a huge mistake in steel and PVC installed at the Tate Modern and London, 2002. www.anishkapoor.com/
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Anne Bak
November 22, 2011 4:18 PM
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The Singing Ringing Tree is located at Crown point, overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire.
Completed in 2006, it is part of the series of four sculptures within the Panopticons arts and regeneration project. The project "was set up to erect a series of 21st-century landmarks, or Panopticons (structures providing a comprehensive view), across East Lancashire as symbols of the renaissance of the area.
Designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu, the Singing Ringing Tree is "constructed from pipes of galvanised steel, which harnesses the energy of the prevailing winds", to produce a slightly discordant and penetrating choral sound covering a range of several octaves. Some of the pipes are primarily structural and aesthetic elements, while others have been "cut across their width enabling the sound". The harmonic and "singing" qualities of the tree were produced by tuning the pipes "according to their length by adding holes to the underside of each".
In 2007, the sculpture won (along with 13 other candidates) the National Award of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for architectural excellence. www.tonkinliu.co.uk/
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November 22, 2011 3:34 PM
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Jann Rossen Queralt: "Cultivus Loci: Dropa", 2000, Evergreen House, Baltimore MD, USA "The relationship beetween music and nature inspiredthis work. Wather courses throught a streabed on the grounds of the Evergreen Estate. Its level rises and falls as the seasons cycle. The wather sonds vibrate through yhe atmosphere, and patterns of light are reflectedon its surface. The continuous flow can be altered by a droplet, and the ripples that form, like the imagined vibrations from the music, become one with the surrounding environment. This process represents communication between the heavens and the earth, creating a place for thereflection." J-R. Q. Detail: Pendulum (7’ x 3’ x3’) aluminum and steel http://jannrosen-queralt.com
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November 20, 2011 6:19 PM
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François Méchain: "The tree scales", The International Garden Festival of Chaumont sur Loire, 2009 Reference to the novel by Italo Calvin, "The Baron in the Trees", whose hero took refuge in trees to escape the constraints of ordinary life, this "tree scale" of the sculptor and photographer François Méchain is an invitation to look at the poetic world from another point of view, further, to above. www.francoismechain.com/
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