DESIGN STREET: First Chennai Urban Art Installation – commemorating the Child in You

During my travels, when ever I saw the creative of use of public space, like 'The Morning Line' below in Vienna, I used to wonder,why such activity does not happen in our own city. Yes there are installations… permanent political and religious Statues or in some small corner an Art Installation like the one at the corner of Harrington road, which sadly no one notices anymore.

'The Morning Line' installed at Vienna June 7th - Nov 20th, 2010  

So it was a pleasant surprise when I heard from Kishore of ArchitectureRed that they are going to do one installation called “Stack It Up” for CRY in commemoration of the “Child in You”. It is a temporary installation designed to be erected on a prominent public space, in order to create awareness among the public on the crucial issue of children’s right to education, which I could identify with.

STACK IT UP
Image courtesy: Tahaer Zoyab, Triple O Studio

I do believe that…

A)         Education for every child is a must if India has to reach the next level of growth, economically as well as cohesively within the diversity that we have.

B)         We need many more Urban Art installations in the Public places of Chennai City, as it will go a long way to promote a public appreciation of art as whole.

So do support it if you are in Chennai, on 23rd – 25th Nov, 2012, by visiting.... Marina Beach to look at it.

NOW A BRIEF NOTE ON URBAN ART INSTALLATION AND SOME IMAGES OF INSTALLATION ACROSS THE GLOBE. DON'T MISS THE 'GANGNAM STYLE' VIDEO ART IN THE END BY A GREAT SCULPTOR.

Installation Art: A brief note

Stack It Up
Almost ready for visitors - Marina Beach,2012

Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Installation artworks have been constructed in exhibition spaces such as museums and galleries, as well as public and private spaces. The genre incorporates a broad range of everyday and natural materials, which are often chosen for their "evocative" qualities, as well as new media such as video, sound, performance, immersive virtual reality and the internet

Installation art came to prominence in the 1970s but its roots can be identified in earlier artists such as Marcel Duchamp and his use of the readymade and Kurt Schwitters' Merz art objects, rather than more traditional craft based sculpture. The "intention" of the artist is paramount in much later installation art whose roots lie in the conceptual art of the 1960s. This again is a departure from traditional sculpture which places its focus on form. Early non-Western installation art includes events staged by the Gutai group in Japan starting in 1954, which influenced American installation pioneers like Allan Kaprow.

Text Curtsey : Wikipedia,click here to read more...

Urban Art Installation

Now here are some interesting Urban Art installation across the globe...

'Expansion'

Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically 'un-contained'?”,

 says Paige Bradley - Sculptor

CLICK HERE TO KNOW MORE

The Cloud Gate aka The Bean by Indian Born Sculptor Anish Kapoor
at Chicago USA To know more about it click here 
IMG Curtsy http://www.chiboysblog.com/the-cloud-gate-a-k-a-the-bean

The B of Bang, Manchester UK 2005 

By Architect Thomas Heatherwick
From "Note on Good Design"
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Another installation in Vienna

Released two days back on 21st Nov,2012, the new media Urban Art video by Anish Kapoor "Gangnam for Freedom" for in support of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei....

Finally I leave you with a Time lapse Video clip of its making and the 'Stack It Up' team...  weathering strong wind and rain to complete the installation at Marina Beach for your viewing pleasure...

The ArchitectureRED Team
CLICK HERE TO SEE ONE OF THEIR PROJECT

Here is an interesting article about the installation at Marina beach in Times Of India Today... "New attraction at Marina for next 3 days"  

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Shashi

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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A Note On Good Design Part II

Up, Close & Personal: Expansion - A beautiful sculpture by Paige Bradley

The beauty of the Lotus posture, the meditative outlook of the form and the light emanating from within this sculpture, created a Haiku like poetry about Spirituality which caught my eye, when I came across it, earlier this month. I decided to seek out the artist Paige Bradley and try to find what inspired her to create this iconic sculpture known as “Expansion”…

Expansion by Paige Bradley

“From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: A social security number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in, rather than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies? Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically 'un-contained'?”, says Paige Bradley

Though Ms Paige Bradley was off work, as she is in the family way, she was gracious enough to have her office sent me the images below that I am sharing in this post. I wish her all the positive energy to form within to create many more such wonderful creations…

A Brief Note…

Expansion in different light

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Paige Bradley was born in Carmel, California Paige Bradley knew she would be an artist by the age of nine. Immersed in nature and art, Bradley's fascination with the human figure began early. She believed that through the figure an artist could speak a universal language that is timeless and essential.

Paige Bradley started drawing from the nude model by the age of ten and by fifteen was studying intensely at university campuses during the summer months. Knowing that she was naturally a sculptor, at seventeen she cast her first bronze sculpture.

Annually, Paige Bradley has several solo exhibitions, and her work can be seen in selected galleries throughout the world. In 2004 she moved her studio from California to New York City. In the spring of 2007 she moved to London, where she currently works full time.

Paige's work is full of dichotomies: both the beautiful and the ugly, the liberated and the contained, the falling and the floating. She is always in control of form but not imprisoned by its literality. The subject matter becomes the most important -- not narrowly feminist, but rather humanistic betrayals of modern emotion. Paige's work is becoming a valuable keystone for the missing figure in contemporary art. Only in her early thirties, Paige Bradley's talent and artistic achievements have already gained her much notoriety.

Ever growing sky line behind Sculpture Expansion by Paige Bradley

To read more about her and see her beautiful work, please log on to her website… PaigeBradley

I thank Ms. Paige Bradley for her support and the images and wish her all the best.

The light within - Expansion by Paige Bradley

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ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya 

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