A large group gathered outside the
Rapid Transit system's Central Station in Grand Rapids, Michigan last Friday July 17th for the public dedication of Dennis Oppenheim's recently installed sculpture
Journey Home. The artist spoke to the group briefly describing the work.
He said,
Journey Home is a spiraling 24-foot high circular form of rolled steel tubing clad with perforated metal, colored acrylic and slotted sandblasted Lexan. The form originates as a point in space, which journeys in a spiral configuration to the shape of a house.
The work was commissioned by the Interurban Transit Partnership and constructed by La Paloma Fine Art, an art fabrication company based in Sun Valley, California.
Dennis Oppenheim is one of the leading artists in the field of sculpture with a career spanning over forty years. He has concentrated on public art since the 1980s. Other public projects to be completed in 2009 are
Garden of Evidence for Scottsdale, Arizona;
Arriving Home for Chicago;
Still Dancing for Toronto;
Pathways to Everywhere for Calgary;
Radiant Fountain for Houston; and
Paintbrush Gateway for Las Vegas.
A book on Oppenheim's recent projects titled:
Public Projects was just published by Charta, Milan. Included are essays by artists
Vito Acconci and
Liam Gillick and scholars,
Aaron Betsky and
Aaron Levy. It is available from
Distributed Art Publishers.
Dennis Oppenheim Studio
Contact: Amy Plumb
Voice: 212 962 0178
Fax: 212 587 3314
mail.oppenheim@earthlink.net
Bonjour tout le monde, voici des photos d'une murale que j'ai réalisée à Montmagny ma ville natale. J'ai commencé cette murale à l'été 2008, mais le mauvais temps m'a considérablement ralenti... J'y suis donc retourné au début de cet été pour la terminée. Cette murale est d'une dimension de 81 pieds de long par 16 pieds de hauteur (un peu moin de 25 mètres de long par un peu moin de 5 mètres de haut). Cette murale avait pour thème "Montmagny point de rencontre".
