If you're interested in mosaic artwork in public arenas - have a look at this array of celestial images of ELLEN HARVEY's collaboration with Franz Mayer of Munich and the Valerio Lenarduzzi Studio in Spilimbergo. It was designed, fabricated and installed for the opening of the Yankee's new Bronx stadium in 2009.
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ELLEN HARVEY, The Home of the Stars |
Each of the eleven panels is 6.75 by 18 feet and depicts evening-to-nighttime views of the sky that MTA passengers encounter along the bridge that connects the station and the
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ELLEN HARVEY, The Home of the Stars |
stadium. Cinematic in its presentation, each "frame" of the ensemble represents a fifteen-minute time increment.
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ELLEN HARVEY, The Home of the Stars - detail |
panel 1
panel 2
panel 3
panel 4
and jumping ahead into the night
deeper
and deeper
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ELLEN HARVEY, The Home of the Stars - detail |
Ellen speaks about the commission (which she designed in watercolor, based on local photos) and compares styles of work between the Lenarduzzi and Perdomo Studio.
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ELLEN HARVEY, Nudist Museum courtesy the artist; photo Jan Baracz |
But, actually, it was The Nudist Museum exhibition at the Bass Museum in Miami, where I first became acquainted with her work Her "Nudist Museum" intervention utilized the Bass Museum's collection of Renaissance and Baroque art - and a few modern bits. (It's described from the museum's perspective by Dr. Adrienne von Lates in MOA Episode 41 and in an abbreviated version in her narrated slide show).
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JACOB JORDAENS, Homage to Pomona |
This time we hear how the project began and evolved from the artist's vantage point. Ellen notes that while we tend to assume that an ideal of beauty is immutable, in fact the examples of beauty expressed in the figurative painting and sculpture of different epoques are quite different - especially interesting to consider in the context of Miami's sexy body fetish!
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ELLEN HARVEY, Nudist Museum; After Jacob Jordaens' Homage to Pomona courtesy the artist; photo Jan Baracz |
Ellen's Bass Museum experiment was unique, but continues a theme of "intervention" that is part of former projects and continues in her large new past-meets-present installation at the Turner Contemporary museum in Margate (outside London).
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ELLEN HARVEY, Arcadia courtesy the artist and Galerie Gebruder Lehmann, Locks Gallery and Meessen de Clercq photo David Grandorge |
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