Three major new art commissions for exhibition ROAD SHOW, a nine day festival

The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Thursday, March 28, 2024


Three major new art commissions for exhibition ROAD SHOW, a nine day festival
Katie Paterson, Campo del Cielo, Field of the Sky. Photo: Giorgia Polizzi.



LONDON.- The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, through its event producer, DREAM has commissioned three major new contemporary art works for Exhibition ROAD SHOW. The commissions will populate the road for nine days, alongside the live music acts, pop-up ballrooms, dance and circus extravaganzas, large-scale vintage board games, glamorous fashion outings and Eat St food stalls that make up Exhibition ROAD SHOW.

From a meteorite that is over 4.5 million years old, to a living sculpture populated by bees, and a bird’s eye view commentary, examining the public from afar, each artwork investigates a unique aspect of the natural world.

Katie Paterson: ‘Campo del Cielo, Field of the Sky’
Katie Paterson’s work offers a unique blend of art and science, and an expanded sense of reality, beyond the purely visible. For Road Show, Paterson has taken a meteorite that has been travelling through space and time for 4.5 billion years, cast it, melted it and then re-cast it back into “a new version of itself.” The new space and time altered meteorite will be placed on Exhibition Road where people will be encouraged to explore the cosmic rock. The iron meteorite was found in the Formosa province of Argentina, in the Campo del Cielo strewn field, and was buried twelve feet below the earth for 5,600 years.

Graeme Miller: ‘On Air’
Graeme Miller’s work embraces a wide range of media reflecting a sense of landscape and place. For Road Show Miller will create a continuous commentary on the everyday life of Exhibition Road and its surrounds throughout the nine days. On the rooftops high above the Road, he will set up a temporary radio station and invite broadcasters from the worlds of sport and the arts to commentate on the passing action. They will narrate the constant flow of activity visible from their elevated position, from the passers-by below to clouds over the North Downs, to planes landing at Heathrow. An evocation of the constantly changing layers of London life, the audio commentary will be made available to passers by via a low frequency FM broadcast on bespoke in-ear radios.

Tomàš Libertiny: ‘The Agreement’
Slovakian artist Tomàš Libertiny creates live sculptures inhabited by swarms of honeybees. For Road Show, he will be bringing a unique new ecosystem to the festival, creating a visually stunning home for the bees. Exploring the relationship between natural and man-made production systems by encouraging living bees to create hives in particular forms, Libertiny extends the bees’ natural forms, demonstrating their ability to mirror, as well as build upon, man-made structures.










Today's News

July 24, 2012

Mexican archaeologists discover three 1,000 year old tombs near Monte Albán in Oaxaca

Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal says ruby red steel tower in London is not Olympic cauldron

Art collector Herbert Vogel, who with his U.S. postal clerk salary built a collection, dies at 89

Tate unveils first live commission in The Unilever Series created by the artist Tino Sehgal

One of China's foremost artists, Liu Xiaodong, now represented by Lisson Gallery

Philadelphia Museum of Art appoints Dr. Elizabeth Milroy as Curator of Education for Public Programs

2012 Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize shortlist announced

New large-scale sculpture by the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm installed at The Standard, New York

Cartier watches, rare gold coins, diamonds in Government Auction July 29 sale

"The Human Senses and Perception in Contemporary Art" on view at Kunsthalle zu Kiel

London Artist Sophie Smallhorn wraps Olympic Stadium 2012 in full spectrum of colour

Three major new art commissions for exhibition ROAD SHOW, a nine day festival

Munich 1972 Olympic posters: Art inspired by Olympic ideals at the Walker Art Gallery

Edward Allington sculpture exhibition opens in Canary Wharf

New digital platform for and about those at the leading edge of design goes live

E20 12 Under Construction: A visual exploration of the Olympic development by Giles Price

Spanish Colonial Arts Society announces a gift of fine Peruvian art from the Beltrán-Kropp Foundation

David Askevold's Once Upon a Time in the East journeys west to the Armory Center for the Arts

Britain's Royal Mail to issue Olympic champ stamps




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful