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Digest 16
Re: Carl milles
From: KJ
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We are also searching for info please help us!!
Sculptists. . . .
The lone bright spot in my three-day drive in a Uhaul full of
stone from DC to Texas this past weekend, was a quick stop in
Chattanooga, TN. On a hilltop above the river in downtown sit the
Hunter Museum, and a wonderful grouping of River Gallery, inns
and restaurants, and an outdoor sculpture venue run by the River
Gallery. What a breath of fresh air to grab a coffee and walk
around the gallery, museum and sculpture park high above the
river!
This prompted me to wonder, among many other things over the next
18 hours of driving (but lets not get into that) WHAT MAKES A
GREAT OUTDOOR SCULPTURE INSTALLATION? Was the Chattanooga stop so
nice because of the view of the river and the architecture of the
museum and galleries? Was it the atmosphere of having nice food
and drink nearby and seeing all the other folks out exploring the
sculpture? Was it that many of my friends' works were included in
the show? Was it the Stella or Serra pieces? Was it just that I
had been driving for 12 hours beforehand???
PLEASE TAKE A FEW MINUTES AND DESCRIBE THE ELEMENTS THAT MAKE
YOUR FAVORITE OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SPOT SO SPECIAL.
Below please find some opportunities for sculptors, a question
about insuring temporary works, and a few comments on
"cow" projects, and other miscellaneous goodies.
Take care,
RJ
OPPORTUNITIES
Metro Reginal Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR call for
proposals for multiple projects connected with the Oregon
Convention
Center Expansion.
8 restrooms - total budget $70,000
26 plaques - $52,000 budget
28 sconces - $42,000 budget
signiture work for street lobby area - $400,000 buget
deadline 3/5/01
for furhter information contact
Eloise Damrosch 503-823-5400
edamrosch@racc.org
Maimi, FL Maimi-Dade Art in Public Places
South Miami-Dade Cultural Center project budget $300,000
Water & Sewer Dept. Admin. Building Project budget $250,000
Deadline 3/9/01
for a prospectus/RFP Sam Delgado 305-375-5362 or
publicart@co.miami-dade.fl.us
Clarksville, TN
Montgomery Co. Millennium Commission is conducting an open
competition
for the design and execution of an exterior water
feature/sculpture
for the Millennium Plaza in downtown Clarksville.
project budget $92,000 application deadline 4/30/01
for a prospectus, contact Gregg Schalanger schlangerg@apsu.edu
INTRODUCTION
>From Hong Kong to Taiwan, from the past until present,
from existence to nihility, there are transformations
within myself. These changes are from the struggling
within my heart. A heart that deep with ardent love
of art while inflexible and uncompromising with the
depth of my art. It was this heart that led me to
Taiwan. Taiwan is not only a new start to me, it is
also a place that leads me into new creations while
transcend the old creativity of my mind. I believe in
my choice.
I have chosen to be a photographer as my career, and I
have also gone through a professional training on
photography. Meanwhile, my art creation is not
influence by my career because art has become the
largest part of my life. My creativity begins to
explode continuously in my mind with Taiwan as my
muse. I abandoned the old creations for more space to
deposit my new creativity, to absorb more new ideas,
and new concepts.
With just one bag and one ticket, I came to Taiwan. A
different place brings out different ideas and
distinct messages. These new messages initiate me to
remove, refute, and renew my art creation. Taiwan is
a new tool to purify my work. My art will resonate
and communicate with the world. Indeed, people could
have different perspective on my art because art is as
limitless as the future.
INSURANCE QUESTION
How about some info on how to insure outdoor works in a
non-sculpture park environment? Anyone out there have any
companies they can recommend?
Bob Rizzo, Director
Convergence International Art Festival
answer: Bob, I insure the liability coverage for the It's
Sculpture! pieces in DC through Flather & Perkins in DC. The
DC Commission on the Arts covers the damage policy in their huge
policy which covers all their works citywide. The liability
coverage is about $100 per sculpture per year. Ask for Gail
Sweeney at 202 466 8888.
COMMENT ON PRIOR POSTING IN CONNECTICUT
I just went to the Sculpture at Noble Horizons in Salisbury, CT
site. I'm surprised to find no mention of an honorarium. There's
a small entry fee, but since you mentioned that they had a strong
commitment to artists I didn't expect them to want the artist to
pay transportation, etc. Just wanted to note that; maybe I'm
missing something. Betsy
COWS
Randy, after getting a foot of snow with sub 50 below windchills,
I am
dreaming of a Texas winter. Just thought I would comment on the
cows...
I was wondering about how others saw these growing
"cow" projects as well.
I am only vaguely familiar with them and don't really know where
the money
raised goes to but I am rather biased against them. I think it
gives
communities the illusion that they are supporting the arts when
in reality
it is only a large marketing scheme to bring business to the
city. They get
a warm fuzzy feeling inside while the idea of an art and culture
that
inspires one to great heights languishes on the rocks of commerce
driven
tourism. They are truly an "art" for the modern masses
of unreflective,
impatient people defined by their consumption.
Sam Spiczka
www.angelfire.com/mn2/sculptorsam
In response to the comments about a "proliferation of
cows," here in Los Angeles we are soon to have a
proliferation of "angels." The sponsoring organization
was looking for 400 artists to create 400 angels. I believe the
angels are to appear with in the next month or so.
Pat and Jeff Warner
phone/fax 562-694-1637
Washington, DC is planning a "donkeys&elephants"
project.
RJ
PUBLIC SCULPTURE??
I was reading this press release with interest, thinking about
those letters in your digests about what is public sculpture.
Nuria has made an installation on surgical harnesses, the
spectator may particpate in the gallery. There will be a photo in
the next newsletter Feb. 15
www.sculptour.org <http://www.sculptour.org>
Here is a rapid translation from the spanish text.
Did you see the last newsletter ? , I got a few letters back from
the States about the CATHARS. The medieval is obviously in
fashion at the moment,The Carlo Magno exhibition in Spain, the
exhibition Micro Architecture at the Henry Moore Foundation in
Leeds. I am reading a book that has just come out KINGS OF ALBION
by Julian Rathbone (ABACUS) which as a Lancashire Lad interests
me greatly. .
Saludos cordiales, TM.
Press Release
N™ria Membrado
"Playground"
Today more than ever, sculpture has come down from it's pedestal.
If in the past sculptors distanced themselves from painting
clamouring for public space and a privileged situation in history
and mythology, now with the end of the 20th.,Century nothing is
the same in the works of those who define themselves as
sculptors. In a period of hybridization of styles and currents,
these architects of material have decided to get close to the
spectator in order that the spectator will swallow what they are
doing.
Now having learnt the lessons of minimal-art, in which walls,
floors or the same material constitute the work and once
assimilated land art in which nature has been definitely
domesticated - something that sculpture would have resisted by
definition - the sculptor today far away from marble, bronze,
cast iron or steel, has taken another step with no return,
towards that which is so actual, the virtual. Thanks to
projections - Tony Oursler, Sound -Jaume Plensa, Architecture -
Jean Pierre Raynaurd,Ornimentation - Jeff Koons, or architecture
and design - Jorge Pardo, without doubt sculpture is not what is
was.
Now we don't situate ourselves in reverence before it. We move
with it, we inhabit it or as in the case of Nuria Membrado we
hang from it to play, fly or simply participate in a unaccustomed
exercise in sculptoric levitation at the artist's invitation.
All this has a lot to do with how much art has changed, the rapid
movements forward or spurts that effect the times and the
artists. Far from the decorative, but defining new esthetic
canons, artists in a process of identification with their work
which has enabled them to find new guide lines every time more
personally formalised, coming close to disciplines so apparently
different as the ritual of iniciation, risk sports, infant games
and physiotherapy, naturally going through new technologies. In
all of this one finds traces in the work by Nuria Membrado who
being a sculptress demonstrates evidently her dominion of empty
space, the materials and the volumes, also she go go through life
as a physiotherapist, psychiatrist or gymnast.
Converted for some instants in modern Icaros
"Playground" is an exhibition with the proposal of
complicity and particpation, proposing equally to transform the
spectator as the very same artist.
Last changed: January 17, 2006