commercial public art x mnpl
Reassembling the Urban, 2022
(the work is exhibited on the street near the art centre)
Elements of urban and military urban infrastructure.
Courtesy of the artists.
Produced by PinchukArtCentre.
Reassembling the Urban mockup, 2022
Leftovers from past exhibitions, objects from the art centre warehouse, 3D printing, digital printing, paper, self-adhesive.
Courtesy of the artists.
Produced by PinchukArtCentre.
The first part of the project is presented outside the building, with a display of urban elements set up at a parking lot. For their collaborative piece, the artists of the commercial public art collective and the MNPL group utilised some usual elements of a cityscape, such as benches, road delineators, lanterns and garbage cans, complementing them with objects that wartime has brought to urban space, namely concrete blocks and anti-tank hedgehogs. This is the first ever artistic reinvention of the road in front of PinchukArtCentre. It has recently become a pedestrian zone, and now people can further customise and inhabit it, as well as interact with the object constructed at the parking lot by sitting on it, leaning against it, etc.
Inside the exhibition space, the visitors are invited to participate in a cooperative rethinking of the parking lot installation and invent new layouts by arranging virtual (3D models) and tangible (3D prints) images of its elements. Through this gesture of interactive involvement, the artists encourage people to share responsibility and care for public spaces.
Dear visitors, thank you for leaving printed images of infrastructure elements in the exhibition space for other visitors' participation.
You can find a digital version of the installation model at
http://commercialpublicart.com/mockup If you post your layouts on social media, please tag @commercialpublicart. Thank you and have fun!