Via biennial.com [with interjections by ARTLURKER in brackets]
“[Apparently] the most daring piece of public art ever commissioned in the UK, Turning the Place Over is [purported to be] artist Richard Wilson’s most radical intervention into architecture to date, [where by] turning [a blind eye to the recent history of contemporary art] a building in Liverpool’s city center [stands not only as a testament to his lack of imagination, rudimentary 21st century technologies and the frequent misplacement of cultural funding, but specifically as an apparent homage to the work of the late Gordon Matta Clark whom if alive would surely be foaming at the mouth and seeking to turn Wilson] inside out. One of Wilson’s very rare temporary works, Turning the Place Over colonizes Cross Keys House, Moorfields. It runs in daylight hours, triggered by a light sensor.” – www.biennial.com
Courtesy of Liverpool Biennial TV
This post was contributed by Thomas Hollingworth.
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6 Comments
Wow, that was beautiful and daring!
I wonder how many hungry people he could have fed with the money he spent making this project?
Who cares! this project gave me the sense of what a hunger induced hallucination must feel like. It was like an empty hole in the pit of my stomach gnawing with hunger.
thanks!
I forgot the mention that Richard Wilson’s work blew my mind years ago when I read about this work:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2003/apr/04/thesaatchigallery.art3
This artist is incredible!
He gives a whole new meaning to glory hole.
Well, you can be negative. What I see is a huge attempt to subvert the expected. Seeing a part of a building rotate has to fall within the ambit of art, or art is nothing. And imaginative – well, of course. How is it not? Would you have dared to propose this, or to engineer it? Or to raise the money to achieve it? It is a free public spectacle, sometimes these change lives. To link it to the presence of hunger in the world is the action of the philistine down the ages, as if you cannot have art while there is hunger, or that hungry people do not appreciate art.
Mr. Pope, thank you, your point is well made.
I like what Wilson did to a hot dog vending trailer. The scale is a lot smaller than the building but who cares if the trailer is restorable… Be nice if the building goes back to being useful after the art intervention is over.
http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_424243398_245605_richard-wilson.jpg
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