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Paik, Nam June,
Cohen, Steven S.,
Strohmaier, Tom,
Strohmaier Design Company,
Abstract
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Video Arbor, (sculpture).
Artist:
Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006, sculptor.
Cohen, Steven S., architect.
Strohmaier, Tom, assistant.
Strohmaier Design Company, design firm.
Title:
Video Arbor, (sculpture).
Dates:
Dedicated 1990.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: metal, concrete, color video monitors, foliage.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. H. 12 ft.
Inscription:
unsigned
Description:
This abstract sculpture consists of eighty-four color video monitors arranged in a geometric pattern over the entrance to One Franklin Town Apartments. The monitors are mounted on three rows of vertical steel beams that are supported by twenty-four open metal columns. Wisteria vines adorn the vertical steel beams. Rapidly changing video images flash from each of the monitors. Forty-two monitors display local images of Philadelphia and forty-two display images of nature.
Subject:
Abstract
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by City of Philadelphia, Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, Percent for Art, 1234 Market Street, 8th floor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
Located One Franklin Town Apartments, One Franklin Plaza at Callowhill Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Remarks:
The sculpture was initiated by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia. The inscription on a plaque located on the far left wall of the One Franklin Town building reads: VIDEO ARBOR/BY NAM JUNE PAIK/THIS WORK WAS COMMISSIONED BY/FOREST CITY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, INC./IN COOPERATION WITH THE REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY /OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA/ONE PERCENT FINE ARTS PROGRAM/AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA/THE ARTIST ACKNOWLEDGES THE FOLLOWING PROJECT ASSOCIATES: CARL SOLWAY GALLERY, THE STROHMAIER DESIGN, BENTLY MEISNER ASSOCIATES, INC., THP LIMITED/SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, PROZE AND ADELCO, INC. IAS files contain an excerpt from Penny Balkin Bach's "Public Art in Philadelphia," Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, pg. 187, 258.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Bach, Penny Balkin "Public Art in Philadelphia," Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, pg. 258.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS PA001123
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Inventory of American Sculpture
PA001123
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