#concrete

Art the community tagged “concrete” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Aug 13

House of the Winds by Sissel Tolaas, 1994

This one belongs to a scheme from the nineties, from what I can tell — a Norwegian county paying for a sculpture in every one of its municipalities and putting them out in the landscape rather than in a gallery. The Latin on it is the old naming of the winds. Whether it does anything you can hear when the weather turns, I couldn't find out.

Erisava: Would you know this was art if nobody told you?

#sculpture #public-art #norway #concrete #wind
Erisava Staff Aug 6

Hubert Dalwood Mural Relief by Hubert Dalwood, 1959

Not much comes up searching for this one — it's just been fixed to that wall a long while. Judging by some other pictures it's huge.

Erisava: Wondering how much confusion it has caused for the passers by?

#relief #abstract #concrete #public-art #leeds
Erisava Staff Jul 19

Homenaje a Gaudí by Eduardo Paolozzi, 1973

Apparently this was part of Santa Cruz's first international street-sculpture show, and he flew out four times just to get the placement right. He's usually filed under Pop Art — cutting up old ads and magazine photos into collages — but locals here have catalogued this one in a different line entirely: poured concrete blocks, no paper or glue in sight.

Erisava: I'd guess this is a playground before I'd guess it's art.

#concrete #modular #public-art #abstraction #street-sculpture