So is a large-scale installation by Jacques Rival in a big neon cells, which will be raised by crane and hung over London every night of the project on reconstruction of the district Kings Cross Station

Jacques Rival
identified flying object.
2011 Source: independent.co.uk

Wednesday night near the train station in London Kings Cross in the air hung a huge glowing neon design, which resembles a cage for the birds. But this is not a UFO, as some citizens might think. Rather, it is ARD - "identified flying object." It is so named his installation French artist and architect Jacques Rival (Jacques Rival). However, despite its name, the ARD does not fly and is hanging from a bright orange crane.

Installation arrived at a London railway station on 16 November and, according to the authors of the project would be "up in the air" every night for the next two years. OLO - is the first step towards the realization of the artistic project "Change» (Relay) for reconstruction Kings Cross Station and the surrounding area to him. The project, designed for nine years, organized by the Anglo-French alliance of curators - Michael Pinsky (Michael Pinksy) and Stephanie Delacroix (Stephanie Delacroix).

«Reply Jacques Rival King's Cross station and poetic, and appropriate, - the duo Pinsky curators and Delacroix. - This sculpture is consistent with nomadic constant movement and the changes taking place in this new area every day. In the following months ARD can be seen alternately over cafeterias, in the heart of the construction site, on the roofs of buildings and, of course, the sky ».

the penalty cage begins to glow with neon only at nightfall. And the light of day it will rest near Kings Cross Station, so that those 47 million people who arrive and leave the station every day, could look at it up close. And the most curious will, squeezed through the crowd of competitors, even swinging on a swing, suspended in the center of the cell.

Kings Cross is fast becoming a center of attraction for people in the arts: near it are the Central College of Art and Design. St. Martin's Center for the Arts at King's Place, in which to learn and operate approximately 5,000 residents. The project of reconstruction of 27 hectares of urban space once gloomy part of London will become a part of its modern, 40 percent of which will occupy parks and open spaces. Reconstruction of Kings Cross Station should be completed next year. And for those who live next door to the old station, under the artistic project "Change" has yet to see the works of Swiss Felisa Varin (Felice Varini), Slovene Maretitsy Petrch (Marjetica Potrc) and Briton Richard Wentworth (Richard Wentworth).

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru