A bit of colour down the Clyde - 'Poised Array'
I went over to the BBC Scotland Building after work tonight to have a look at the new public art piece by Toby Patterson. The piece cost the BBC £350,000 and is seemingly the most expensive piece of public art ever commissioned in Glasgow.
With a superstructure made from steel cast in Grangemouth, and its multi-coloured shapes also made, from glass fibre reinforced plastic plywood, in Scotland, the work, Paterson said, was intended to hint at the manufacturing history of the Pacific Quay site.
The 25 coloured shapes are based on portions of the Ordnance Survey map of Scotland. Paterson said: "I spent a while looking at maps, and the shapes are taken from them. It represents the topography of Scotland a wide range of different areas. I am not saying which shape is where - there is town and country, Highlands and islands."
I like the piece, I think we should have more public art in Glasgow, especially around the river. However the piece does appear quite isolated, that may be because the whole area around the BBC building is lacking life. There is nothing there to encourage people to use the space, but hopefully that will change.
The piece is entitled 'Poised Array' but Patterson is hoping that the Glasgow public give it a nickname....any ideas
Links: the herald
Links: the herald
Labels: Architecture, art, Cessnock, sculpture
posted by Ann at 19:34
3 Comments:
how about the govan goalposts?
I can appreciate this piece from the perspective that your images show but I thought this was a sculpture? Interacting 3 dimensionally with people ?
It works in one dimension only, other than that it looks a grey superstructure of some motorway signage gone wrong.
am I being too harsh?
It's not the greatest piece of art in world, but it is the work of a young, up and coming Glasgow artist.
The area around the BBC is to vast and empty for a single piece of art to transform the area, and this does not help the piece.
Aye, I agree its a bit lonely at the moment, but apparently it is only the first phase of the work and eventually there will be colour graphics/ panels within the BBC building tying the piece to the building which could be interesting.
I just got back from a weekend in Berlin and the city is full of lonely isolated pieces of art. Nearly every street seems to have some kind of graphic or sculpture. Invidiually they do seem abstracted and out of place but taken as a whole, throughout the city, they kinda work.
Glasgow should try a bit of that, afterall its better to have art that not everyone loves, than no art at all.
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