Visual Rambling

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ACROSS THE BUILDINGS
How do you turn an art school into a work of art? You call in the Swiss artist Felice Varini, give him a vast amount of weatherproof silver adhesive vinyl, and let him do his thing. And that’s why the surfaces of the buildings at Central St Martins new campus at Granary Square, King’s Cross, London are glinting with a 542-metre- long artwork.

What’s fascinating about the artwork, titled ‘Across the Buildings’, is how it was created. The image of the design was projected across the buildings at night; Varini’s team, using cherry-picker lifts, physically traced around the edges of the shapes with chinagraph pencils; cut-to-shape stencils were created, followed by matching sheets of vinyl, which were then bonded to the facades.

ACROSS THE BUILDINGS

How do you turn an art school into a work of art? You call in the Swiss artist Felice Varini, give him a vast amount of weatherproof silver adhesive vinyl, and let him do his thing. And that’s why the surfaces of the buildings at Central St Martins new campus at Granary Square, King’s Cross, London are glinting with a 542-metre- long artwork.

What’s fascinating about the artwork, titled ‘Across the Buildings’, is how it was created. The image of the design was projected across the buildings at night; Varini’s team, using cherry-picker lifts, physically traced around the edges of the shapes with chinagraph pencils; cut-to-shape stencils were created, followed by matching sheets of vinyl, which were then bonded to the facades.

May. 19 2013

Via independent.co.uk

#art #varini #across the buildings

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harrislieberman:

Loved this painting by Sadamasa Motonaga at Gutai: Splendid Playground, which is on view at the Guggenheim until May 8th.

MOTONAGA Sadamasa
Work, 1963
Oil and gravel on canvas
The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas