outdoor art installations

[sway2sway]

I was just perusing the NYT for "all the news that's fit to print, unless they change their minds" (bigD), when I came upon this cloud gate in chicago. Very cool, very beautiful, bending the sky a little closer, I mean.

http://www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/cloud_gate.html

Then I remembered this one I saw last week, called another place. Very neat, could be a little freaky to happen upon it, unbeknownst of what the hell is going on.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2005/07/05/art_antony_gormley_feature.shtml

This is our Inukshuk guy in vancouver, I like him too. They've actually chosen him as the symbol for the 2010 olympics, but the little olympic colored design doesn't do justice to this big stone structure.

http://www.seethewestend.com/inukshuk/inukshuk.htm

I know you guys know more cool stuff..................share.

[sway2sway]

check this photographer's renditions of some of the iron guys out at sea.

http://barbaraluke.co.uk/landscapes/another_place.html

[tinkerlion]

i've always been a fan of christo and jeanne-claude (http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/)

http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/sharedMedia/si/thumb/si2thum.jpg

[sway2sway]

well, that's one I always thought was damn ugly, everything plastic and ugly magnified to the mostest and not only that, covering up one of my favorite things in nature- shoreline.

But that is why art is personal and beauty is subjective, huh?

[tinkerlion]

i feel there's more than just the actual instillation to consider. i guess i've always been fascinated with the entire process from original thought and planning to putting it up and then removing it.

from their website (http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/error.shtml)
So-Called Environmentalists, in the past, have claimed, before each project, that Christo and Jeanne-Claude will hurt the environment. They realized, after the completion that:

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1. Christo and Jeanne-Claude are the cleanest artists in the world, all is removed, their large scale works of art are temporary.
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2. The sites are restored to their original condition and most materials are recycled. Except in Florida, for the Surrounded Islands. That site was luckily not restored to its original condition. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's workers removed, before the project, at Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s expense, 40 tons of garbage from the eleven Islands (one of the islands was called "beer cans island" – of course the garbage was not restored to the Islands!
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3. The Real Environmentalists such as "The Audubon Society" and "The Sierra Club" usually find themselves on Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s side – because they are better informed. They know how much Christo and Jeanne-Claude spend to make the public aware of the environment, through the art work, much more than Environmentalists can afford to do.


i was able to attend a lecture by them in 2001. very interesting and entertaining.

of course it's all subjective, but always interesting to see what everyone finds appealing.

[Miss Shark]

I really like the iron guys sway. I like metal iron, bronze, copper.

I would like to see some of the art in person tink, I don't think it is beautiful per se, I would like to see it in full effect.

[sway2sway]

this is in central park, so it says. bronze alice.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i60/marley_lin/alice_in_wonderland_central_park_ma.jpg