TINA B. AT PLAY OUTDOORS
Curated by TINA B.
Carol Hummel, Nuclear Cocoon
LIST OF ARTISTS
Txabi Zabala
Shendra Stucki
Carol Hummel
Rosie Leventon
PHOTOGALLERY TINA B. AT PLAY OUTDOORS
TINA B. AT PLAY OUTDOORS
Curated by TINA B.
In 2011 TINA B. will light up the gloomy autumn of Prague for the sixth year running and as always will be showing contemporary art not just in galleries but on the streets and in the public space. In the view of TINA B., art is not just for a select group of the population, but for everyone. The goal of the festival is therefore to bring art to the people and integrate it with everyday life.
The festival section called TINA B. AT PLAY OUTDOORS pursues the idea that artists should be able to play freely with the public space. The exhibition spaces of (A)void Gallery on the river quay below Rašín Embankment beg for just such an approach. A place traditionally used for sports and recreation, it is now used as anunconventional open-air gallery space.
In the open-air installations on the quayside TINA B. will be presenting an exhibition of unconventional sculpture. Visitors will be able to see the ‘woven’ works of the American artist Carol Hummel or the ‘pixel’ tree called Natural and Digital by the Spanish industrial designer Txabi Zabala. The tree is also a motif in the work of the young artist Shendra Stucki, who was born in Australia but lives in Switzerland. Her two-and-a-half-metre work made out of metal pipes and electric cables is supposed to symbolise the concept of life.
Also on the quay, the Italian artist Franco Angeloni will show his installation made out of empty glass bottles simply titled Glass Bottles. In it he aims to draw attention to the environmental problems that our planet is confronted with today.
A work titled Light Sleeper by the British artist Rosie Leventon will be presented by the festival in the district of Prague 3.
The mysterious patroness of the festival hopes to continue TINA B. AT PLAY OUTDOORS even after the end of the 2011 festival. She would like to create a Sculpture Park based on exhibitions of sculpture held in the streets of Prague every year. From 2012 there will be an exhibition of sculpture, for instance, at Vyšehrad. According to this idea, the sculptures by Czech and foreign artists would not disappear after the end of the exhibition, but each year one sculpture would remain permanently in the city. This would smoothly and naturally give rise to a kind of Sculpture Park spread out across the entire area (and especially the historical parts) of the city.
The Sculpture Park project would not be just another art project, but would directly affect the architectural concept of the city, embellishing, renewing, and reviving it. Just like this year’s TINA B. will warm up the public space with colour and make it brighter and more pleasant to live in.
The festival section called TINA B. AT PLAY OUTDOORS pursues the idea that artists should be able to play freely with the public space. The exhibition spaces of (A)void Gallery on the river quay below Rašín Embankment beg for just such an approach. A place traditionally used for sports and recreation, it is now used as anunconventional open-air gallery space.
In the open-air installations on the quayside TINA B. will be presenting an exhibition of unconventional sculpture. Visitors will be able to see the ‘woven’ works of the American artist Carol Hummel or the ‘pixel’ tree called Natural and Digital by the Spanish industrial designer Txabi Zabala. The tree is also a motif in the work of the young artist Shendra Stucki, who was born in Australia but lives in Switzerland. Her two-and-a-half-metre work made out of metal pipes and electric cables is supposed to symbolise the concept of life.
Also on the quay, the Italian artist Franco Angeloni will show his installation made out of empty glass bottles simply titled Glass Bottles. In it he aims to draw attention to the environmental problems that our planet is confronted with today.
A work titled Light Sleeper by the British artist Rosie Leventon will be presented by the festival in the district of Prague 3.
The mysterious patroness of the festival hopes to continue TINA B. AT PLAY OUTDOORS even after the end of the 2011 festival. She would like to create a Sculpture Park based on exhibitions of sculpture held in the streets of Prague every year. From 2012 there will be an exhibition of sculpture, for instance, at Vyšehrad. According to this idea, the sculptures by Czech and foreign artists would not disappear after the end of the exhibition, but each year one sculpture would remain permanently in the city. This would smoothly and naturally give rise to a kind of Sculpture Park spread out across the entire area (and especially the historical parts) of the city.
The Sculpture Park project would not be just another art project, but would directly affect the architectural concept of the city, embellishing, renewing, and reviving it. Just like this year’s TINA B. will warm up the public space with colour and make it brighter and more pleasant to live in.
