Art Unlimited | Public art projects

Jeppe Hein: Appearing rooms, 2004. 700x230x700 cm. water, wood, pump, iron, computer, nozzle		Jeppe Hein: Appearing rooms, 2004. 700x230x700 cm. water, wood, pump, iron, computer, nozzle
Jeppe Hein: Appearing rooms, 2004. 700x230x700 cm. water, wood, pump, iron, computer, nozzle		Jeppe Hein: Appearing rooms, 2004. 700x230x700 cm. water, wood, pump, iron, computer, nozzle

Jeppe Hein: Appearing rooms (detail), 2004. 700x230x700 cm. water, wood, pump, iron, computer, nozzle		Jeppe Hein: Appearing rooms (detail), 2004. 700x230x700 cm. water, wood, pump, iron, computer, nozzle		Jeppe Hein: Appearing rooms (detail), 2004. 700x230x700 cm. water, wood, pump, iron, computer, nozzle		Jeppe Hein: Appearing rooms (detail), 2004. 700x230x700 cm. water, wood, pump, iron, computer, nozzle

The work is a programmed water pavillion that comes across as a labyrinth composed of four outer water falls in the shape of a square sub-divided into smaller spaces by four independent walls within the structure.

The 2.30 meter tall water falls randomly rise and fall, defining all possible right-angled configurations of the space in sequences of ten seconds before changing shape and appearance. The visitor is allowed to move from space to space within the structure, finding him-/herself in different shaped spaces inside, or then suddenly outside, the pavilion without any possibility to control or govern the confinement/exclusion.

Massimo Bartolini: A Bench, 2006. app. 50X1200X1200 cm. Mixed media

Massimo Bartolini: A Bench, 2006. app. 50X1200X1200 cm. Mixed media Massimo Bartolini: A Bench, 2006. app. 50X1200X1200 cm. Mixed media Massimo Bartolini: A Bench, 2006. app. 50X1200X1200 cm. Mixed media

Italian artist Massimo Bartolini (Massimo de Carlo, Milan) will

constructing a very special, monumental bench on Exhibition

Square. The work makes direct allusion to the revamped design

of the square undertaken by Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig,

who, several years ago, had the words MESSEPLATZ MESSE

BASEL carved into the asphalt in big letters. On the A of BASEL

Bartolino will be erecting a platform approximately half a meter

in height and the same size and shape as the A. The platform

will be planted with acacias and illuminated by street lights at

night. The artist will run a fence open on one side around the

platform. This will allow the A to serve as an oversized bench

visitors to the international art show, while at the same time recalling

the anarchy symbol: a capital A enclosed in a circle.

Martin Creed: Work No. 549, 2006. 243x243x121,5 cm. wood

Martin Creed: Work No. 549, 2006. 243x243x121,5 cm. wood Martin Creed: Work No. 549, 2006. 243x243x121,5 cm. wood Martin Creed: Work No. 549, 2006. 243x243x121,5 cm. wood

At first glance, Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed’s (Galerie

Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich) piece for Exhibition Square is minimalist

and unspectacular. The artist stacks raw wood into a pile

as high as it is wide (width 245 cm, depth 125 cm, height 245

cm). Creed’s humor is revealed, not only in his laconic description

– «It is a great big beautiful pile of wood, stacked as high as

it is long. Coming a little from a little pile of wood, it is an exaggeration

» – but equally in the work itself, which is a humorous

comment on the Minimal Art and Arte Povera of the 1960s.

Chris Burden: Beehive Bunker, 2006. h285 cm. ø305 cm. pre-mixed concrete

Chris Burden: Beehive Bunker, 2006. h285 cm. ø305 cm. pre-mixed concrete Chris Burden: Beehive Bunker, 2006. h285 cm. ø305 cm. pre-mixed concrete Chris Burden: Beehive Bunker, 2006. h285 cm. ø305 cm. pre-mixed concrete

Is it a monumental beehive or a bunker? «Beehive Bunker» is

the title American artist Chris Burden (Galerie Ursula Krinzinger,

Vienna and Massimo de Carlo, Milan) has given his circular,

almost three-meter-high installation made of piled-up sacks of

cement. Soaked by means of built-in water hoses, the cement

will harden into a compact structure.

Marc di Suvero: Ulalu, 2001. 8x9x4.5 m. stainless steel, painted steel

Marc di Suvero: Ulalu, 2001. 8x9x4.5 m. stainless steel, painted steel Marc di Suvero: Ulalu, 2001. 8x9x4.5 m. stainless steel, painted steel Marc di Suvero: Ulalu, 2001. 8x9x4.5 m. stainless steel, painted steel

Grand old man of American metal sculpture Mark di Suvero

(Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; John Berggruen Gallery, San

Francisco) dreams of serene, flawless, well-balanced art that

does not disturb or depress. The monumental (height 8 m, width

9 m, depth 4.5 m) ten-ton sculpture of red-painted steel that

Mark di Suvero will be showing in Basel is called «Ulalu».