Design Miami/Basel: Size Does Count at Art Basel
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pemSergio Prego’s ‘Ikurrintilde;a Quarter’ is a 140-meter-long PVC tunnel./em/p
pYour curiosity is piqued as you wait in front of the 140-meter-long PVC zigzag tube, curious. When your turn arrives, you squeeze yourself through the tight slit in the plastic. You feel claustrophobic, not sure you want to continue. After you get your breath back, you find yourself inside a long wide corridor and realized that you have completely lost your sense of orientation and space./p
pSergio Prego, a Spanish artist, has created ‘Ikurrintilde;a Quarter’, a pneumatic membrane sculpture that transforms public pathways and, at the same time, changes the viewer’s perception of immediate environment. /p
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pemPrego’s piece can be experienced both inside and outisde./em/p
pThis unique piece is part of a href=”http://www.artbasel.com/go/id/elj/”Art Unlimited/a, the XXL pieces section that has become one of the most visited and praised parts of a href=”http://www.artbasel.com/”Art Basel/a since it was first hosted in 2000. The strength and originality of the exposed works, organized as if this was a museum and not a commercial fair, bring this venue even closer to the most important biennales in the world./p
pPrego’s creation is one among many pieces made with very cheap material this year. According to the curator of the exhibition, Simon Lamuniegrave;re, “it is a coincidence and it doesn’t have anything to do with the economic context we are experiencing now.” In fact, ‘Laberinto e Grande Pozzo’ (1969) by Michelangelo Pistoletto is also exhibited. A few decades old, this massive installation is made of corrugated cardboard and plays with bewilderment and displacement./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/design_miamibasel_size_does_count_at_art_basel__16774.asp”(more…)/a
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