Site-specific art can be an artwork that is arranged to compliment a space and the community, or country, with a consultation about the land and the piece going there.
The example I will use for this is in recent times Nottingham Contemporary invited four
people from Nottingham to go along to discuss sharing ideas and to draw how they would like the future of Nottingham Broadmarsh to be. I went along to this over a year ago and I can see that this can be like a sculpture itself pulling ideas of
a group and also doing what is best for that space.
Ugo Rondinone is a Swiss artist who works in various mediums and is well known for creating colourful landscapes. His work ‘Tiled seven
Magic mountains’ stands in the Nevada desert and is a beautiful, neutral, earthy space with organic shaped rocks. Adding the bursts of colour and working on large scale they can be seen from a distance. It gives childlike, delightful feelings such as wanting to eat sweets, or climb, or to stand and to simply take it in. It makes me want to do something loud and adventurous.
Ugo Rondinone Seven Magic Mountains 2016
When looking at this piece of work is about a movement that happened in the 60s
Pop art merging nature and city contradictions and duality the colour palettete is in a space that lifts the natural environment around it , utilising colours and wanting people to interact. I connect my work through work from last year ‘Traces’ utilising the man made with the natural, drawing the contradiction and duality but separate also . The work is carved using limestone boulders which will be durable and withstand the weather.
Anish Kapoor Bean 2004
Anish Kapoor’s Bean is a sculpture outside at the millennium park in the loop community
Area in Chicago , Illinois It has panoramic mirror shape like a bean and it encapsulates the skyscrapers carries a life of magic. People are draw to shiny things with the sun shining on it this will increase the attraction. The magnetic feeling draws you to it even more than the mirror. It will continue to reflect, rain or shine .
This piece of work commands to be seen, something so commanding it reflects Anish Kapoor’s personality and his purpose to deliver art and to make something not to be hidden in the shadows. Something so loud it takes on a life of its own and becomes a part of the city and the community. It fades away from the artist and becomes a part of a time, a place . I see this with work I have created with music. Working with dubstep producer Geiom on the track ‘Remenissin’ that we collaborated on. this track began being played by DJs and this changes it when people begin to associate the track with a time, a moment, a person or a a place. Although it is me singing and I wrote it the song now takes on a life of its own and becomes a part of a music scene and sits in peoples lives .
