LONG-TERM INSTALLATIONS
Ongoing Long-Term Installations
- Folkert de Jong - Mount
Maslow, 2007
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Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is one of the most
innovative young sculptors today. Inspired by Abraham Maslow’s “Theory
of Human Motivation,” De Jong stages an 18-foot styrofoam
snow mountain being scaled by two bearded figures. Hamburger
Hill references an American assault on a Vietnam position in
which most of the troops died and the hill had no strategic
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- Thomas Hirschhorn - Laundrette, 2001
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Using commonplace materials such as cardboard,
linoleum, postage tape and aluminum foil, Swiss artist Thomas
Hirschhorn has recreated a full-scale replica of a laundrette,
in which cardboard models of washing-machines are inset with
television sets showing global atrocities downloaded from the
internet juxtaposed to videos of the artist performing everyday,
commonplace tasks. Hirschhorn, who has become the most celebrated
international installation artist, challenges us to consider
how poverty and neglect has led to human incivility. |
Past Long-Term Installations
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