Robert Montgomery is a poet. Or better said, he works in a poetic tradition, using words as matter to form his sculptures. Sculptures made of words and light – recycled sun-light – mostly in public spaces, in the city, at fairs, wherever, in a continuing effort to engage a dialogue with passers-by. Montgomery likes to think of “the public” as being individuals: “ at its best art is an intimate conversation with strangers, one at a time, heart-to-heart. It’s quite a privilege to be able to communicate intimately to people you may never meet. ” Montgomery also makes billboard pieces, continuously hijacking multiple advertising spaces in the cities around the world, from Geneva to Istanbul, from London to Lyon. Words from a blogger (Le projet d’amour): “i’ve repeated his words … because i feel like they almost have to be repeated over and over again, like ads, in order for them to complete their meaning.”
He had to show at Docks Art Fair “ALL PALACES ARE TEMPORARY PALACES”. The palaces though were so temporary that they will not be shown at Docks. Here they are… ephemeral as the wind that blew them down.
ALL PALACES ARE TEMPORARY PALACES
Barbara Polla
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Peter Erskine
Solar Spectrum Environmental art Arte Solare Ambientale
”Sun, Moon and Stars” (Sonne, Mond und Sterne), Exhibition Kokerei Zollverein, Essen, Germany. “Spectrum of Time” and “Sunrise” are permanent installations that opened 5.1999. The Kokerei Zollverein is a renovated coking factory converted to an exhibition site in the heart of the German coal mining region.
“Spectrum of Time” is a permanent rainbow sundial calendar installation in the Kokerei Zollverein, a United Nations Historic Preservation site. Hour and month lines painted on the walls and floor of the 40’ X 40’ X 40’ industrial museum space mark the hours, summer and winter solstices, and the spring and autumn equinoxes with astronomical accuracy. A 30’ X 30’ cross of solar spectrum light powered by the rotation and tilt of the earth tells the time and date. On cloudy days a laser pointer driven by a solar tracking program fills in for the rainbow.
Abdullah M. I. Syed
THE FLYING RUG OF DRONES (Ed. of 3)
2009
Box-cutter knife blades and stainless steel
48 x 96 in.
(Thank you, RKSTNI)
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