- Tue Greenfort
- Ohne Titel (Bins)
- 2008
- Drei barbeitete Abfalleimer, Acryl, Glas, 110 x 100 x 95 cm
- Courtesy of Frieze Art Fair, London
The project consists of three 1100 litre standard ‘Eurobins’ (the familiar street refuse containers otherwise known as wheelie bins) whose sides had been cut away and replaced with windows of clear polycarbonate, thus making them visibly incorrect and their contents visible to everyone. It created a kind of grand though rudimentary behavioural experiment in which citizens generated a transparent reflection on consumption, disposability and recent municipal waste incentives, at the point where personal assets were thrown ‘away’. Importantly, although the bins were encountered within close proximity to a major art event, they were not visibly “framed” as art works. No plinth, no label and no sign indicated that they were anything other than functional bins, plausibly located where one was leaving the event, perhaps ready to shed unwanted detritus.
source : http://www.johannkoenig.de
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Some Assembly Required - Hard Hat Diving, 2011
Bronze cast of diving suit, welded bronze frame, spray paint.
Dimensions: 3.6 x 3,2 x 0,3 m.
Permanently installed at: Dyk & Naval, The National Public Art Council Sweden, Karlskrona (SE)
Taipei (Taiwan). 2011
Deer shaped hydro towers by Moscow-based design studio DesignDepot
On the morning of the 5th of April, New York City will wake up to glasgow-based artist david shrigley’s piece ‘how do you feel?’ On the high line billboard. Located at West 18th Street and 10th Avenue, the 25 x 75 foot (7.6 x 23 meter) installation will ask the common, yet complex question and provide an answer, one which is a comment on the emotional state of contemporary society. It deals with anxieties, paranoia, and the familiar pressures of personal and cultural demands.
Thousands of red chairs are standing empty along Sarajevo’s main avenue on Friday as Bosnia and Herzegovina commemorates the 20th anniversary since the start of the country’s war. A classical orchestra will play a concert for the 11,541 empty seats, one for each civilian killed during a near-four-year siege of the city by Bosnian Serb forces, which became a symbol of the 1992-1995 conflict.
This massive piece of art that appears to be a simple line drawing of a sheet of paper is an awesome optical illusion created by sculptor Neil Dawson. It’s located in New Zealand on ”The Farm”, a large private art park owned by Alan Gibbs.
[via Sweet Station, archiemcphee]
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