Site-specific art...
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A site-specific is a work of art commissioned and designed specially for a specific location, as can be for example, a museum room.
The PAAM in Miami has asked Polish artist Monika Sosnowska (1972) to create a site-specific work for their Project Gallery. The result is Market, a 500-kg sculpture of welded steel. The artwork has a contradictory shape, grouped together yet fragmentary, restrained but volatile. It seems to shrink when expanding, becoming a sort of spider-web hanging 5 mts above the floor.
Market, according to the artist, refers to the skeletal structures that became common after the fall of the Soviet system. They popped-up in the middle of informal bazaars and were used as kiosks to sell black-market articles, such as clothes and other counterfeit products made in China and Vietnam.
Market, according to the artist, refers to the skeletal structures that became common after the fall of the Soviet system. They popped-up in the middle of informal bazaars and were used as kiosks to sell black-market articles, such as clothes and other counterfeit products made in China and Vietnam.
Sosnowska's work is directly related to the urban landscape typical of the new post-Comunist order.
Market, by Monica Sosnowska (2013)
Materials: painted steel - PAAM, Miami
Market, by Monica Sosnowska (2013)
Materials: painted steel - PAAM, Miami
Market, by Monica Sosnowska (2013)
Materials: painted steel - PAAM, Miami
Market, by Monica Sosnowska (2013) - Detail
Materials: painted steel - PAAM, Miami
The MNBA also has a site-specific work, located at the renovated Museum Library. It was done by artist Mariano Ferrante (born in 1974), who lives and works in Buenos Aires. It's a mural intervention that has a correspondence with his series of "Construcciones dinámicas”.
Construcciones dinámicas N 46, by Mariano Ferrante
Site-specific - MNBA 2012
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