RedBall travelling art installation aims to spark conversation
The world’s longest-running street art project is on show in Genk until Sunday. RedBall Project by US artist Kurt Perschke appeared at the C-mine museum on Wednesday morning and will be displayed around the city over the coming days.
The inflatable ball, almost 5m high, has been to more than 40 cities around the world, including Barcelona, Sydney and Toronto, since it was created in 2001. The artist’s intention is to encourage people to start conversations and remove the static and top-down nature of sculpture in public spaces.
“I think it’s essential for public work to do more than be ‘outdoors’ – it needs to live in the public’s imagination. Simply being placed in public space does not make a work public in the communal sense,” says Perschke. “Scale, tactility, physical presence – these are all tools of sculpture and here they are used as invitations.”
"Simply being placed in public space does not make a work public in the communal sense"
The installation will be placed at four other sites in Genk this week: the youth centre Rondpunt 26 on Thursday, the entrance to the car park on Europalaan on Friday, Cinema Victoria on Saturday and the labyrinth at C-mine on Sunday.
It is in the city as part of the Any Way the Wind Blows art festival, which gathers work by more than 40 Belgian and international artists, designers and architects and runs until 15 September at C-mine.
#FlandersNewsService | RedBall Project in Bordeaux, France, in 2015 © PHOTOPQR/SUD OUEST
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