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U9838

01.01.1985

Notebook Page: Home in the Form of a Banana with Garage, - Claes Oldenburg

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Pencil and watercolor on paper, 5 3/4 x 4 in. (14.6 x 10.2 cm) ...

Banana, Drawing, Fruit, Notebook, Unbuilt Roads

U9701

01.01.1994

Festival du film de famille - Pierre Huyghe

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Le Festival du film de famille est un événement qui séted sur 3 jours, c'est le pant de dipart d'une dénie partagée qui peut se répéter sur plusieurs [arnisé?]. Une communanté affactive [illisible] son [basan?] d'histories par sa propre producti ...

Family, Festival, Film, Unbuilt Roads

U9557

23.04.1997

Eislandschaft - P. Fischli und D. Weiss

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HEIZKRAFTWERK RÖMERBRUCKE STADTWERKE SAARBROCKEN - KUNSTPROJEKT - Bauherr: Stadtwerke Saarbrücken Projekt 3: "Eislandschaft" Künstler: P. Fischli und D. Weiss, Zürich Architekten: PAS, Jourdan und Müller Lage und Baubeschreibung ...

Energie, Energy, ice, Landscape, Landschaft, Science, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads

U9742

26.03.1997

Theater der Leere - Werner Ruhnau and Yves Klein

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Sehr geehrte Frau Sabolewski, auf Veranlassung von Herrn Obrist übersende ich Ihnen anbei die Kataloge " Yves Klein/Werner Ruhnau" und "Baukunst" . Dort finden Sie Zeichnungen, Modellfotos etc. , die Sie gern verwenden können. Das "Feuer-Wasser-Lu ...

Architecture, Berlin, German, Unbuilt Roads, Yves Klein

U9811

01.01.1960

Monument with Rust - Gustav Metzger

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three projects about which I have been thinking for some time. The first construction is to be about 18 feet high with a base about 24 ft. by 18 ft. The principle of this technique was suggested by Mr. E. LI. Evans, who worked in the corrosion of meta ...

London, Monument, Rust, Science, Steel, Unbuilt Roads

U9953

01.01.1974

Temple of the western buddha (1971 Kathmedu) - Herman de Vries

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a circle of sacred trees in the east side of the circle a flat stone as seat uder a boddhi tree (ficus religiosa). other trees in the circle: ficus bengalensis, aegle marmelos,butea frondosa,melia azadirachta,prosopis spicigera,thevetia neriifolia, sa ...

Buddha, Religion, Trees, Unbuilt Roads

U9712

14.11.1992

Memorial - Ilya Kabakov

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Kabakov "MEMORIAL" Short description of the project The Concept of the Project "Memorial" The Russian revolution which established the "era of Socialism" is considered to be a most important event of the twentieth century. The end of ...

Installation, Museum, Revolution, Russia, Socialism, Unbuilt Roads

U10007

01.09.1995

Merci, Thank you, Danke: Les 2 sujets - Thomas Hirschorn

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Pour les affichés 4x3 devant l'immeuble Valois/Saint-Honoré je propose deux sujets issus de la serie "merci, Thank you, Danke". Ces sujets sont deux collages sur carton d'un format assez petit (eviron 20x40 pour l'un et 20x40 pour l'autre) Cette serie j ...

Collage, Photography, Thank you, Unbuilt Roads

U9591

01.01.1987

The World Record - General Idea

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A commission for the SkyDome sports stadium in Toronto, Canada. "General Idea's World Record takes the form of an Illuminated sign suspended overhead and running for the complete circumference of the SkyDome's circular interior street. It will display ...

Canada, Geography, Images, Sign, Toronto, Unbuilt Roads, World

U9263

01.01.1974

CIVITAS Stadtpostkarten - Lothar Baumgarten

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Einige Überlegungen zur Emblematik von Ansichtskarten. Abgebildete Sehenswürdigkeiten gelangen auf Ansichtskarten durch die häufig gewählte Zentralperspektive in die Nähe ausgestellter Backwaren. Die siegelhaft stilisierte Heraldik, eines immer wiede ...

Architecture, Bridges, City, Postcard, Tourism, Unbuilt Roads, Urban

U9997

16.01.1997

Nicht realisierte Projekte - Stefan Demary

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Lieber Hans - Ulrich! Nochmals Danke für die nette Einlandung. In dem Buch, Meine normale Arbeitsweine mit meine künstlerischen Ideen for laufend auf listen zu schreiben. Diese werden zum Teil Jahre später erst realisiert, allendings zählt als jah ...

Clothing, Photo, Photography, Toilet, Unbuilt Roads

U9628

19.11.1969

Unrealized project for Tate Gallery + ICA, 1969 - Gilbert and George

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Memo to: Director From: Richard Christmas Crib sculpture by Gilbert and George Gilbert and George have asked if, despite our discouraging reply about their recent proposal to present a sculpture for one evening, I will present to you personally the ...

authenticity, Christmas, ICA, London, Performance, Sculpture, Tate, Unbuilt Roads

U9798

01.01.1972

Prima del 73 - Fabio Mauri

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see my letter (eventually reasons why the work has not been realised) Anxiety Previous Publications (?) This thing is mentioned in "Fabio Mauri Opere e Azioni 1954-1994" Giorgio Mondadori Ed. Exisiting Documents (photos, drawings, models): ...

Future, History, Photography, Politics, Unbuilt Roads

U9968

25.03.1997

Passage - Richard Wentworth

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In August 1996 I was invited to propose a pedestrian bridge across the river Thames to connect St Pauls Cathedral to the new Tate Gallery of Modern Art. Realising that bridges are conventionally controlled by the economics of wheeled traffic, and invariab ...

Bridge, London, River Thames, Unbuilt Roads

U9562

01.01.1994

Catwalk - Sylive Fleury

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An outdoor concrete sculpture, yet uncompleted. This minimal sculpture is to be built using the traditional catwalk runway model, as in use for most fashion shows. Although adaptable, it should be constructed according to standard proportions, in a ...

Fashion, Installation, Public, Public art, Public Intervention, Unbuilt Roads

U9548

01.01.1997

Why New Worlds Conceived by Artists Do Not Get Built - Peter Fend

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Art, being a permutation or adaptation of that which is known, bodies forth the new. It bodies forth, at the least, mutations. These mutations, curiously, coincide with other fields of innovation, such as science and technology. And the mutations, t ...

Architecture, Invention, Mutations, Nam June Paik, Science, Society, Technology, Unbuilt Roads, World

U9793

01.01.1997

Isometric Projection - Sol Lewitt

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Architecture, Measurement, Sculputure, Unbuilt Roads

U9983

01.01.1994

To Two Too; Hypothetical Monument for a Natural Disaster - Jeffrey Wisniewski

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(222) steel, wire mesh containers, 'gitter boxes', half filled with architectural and cultural debris with other miscellaneous rubble (22) solar panels with battery bank, etc. (solar system) (6) LCD video projectors; video and live television broad ...

Culture, debris, Monument, Natural Disater, Unbuilt Roads

U9268

24.02.1997

The lmprobable Flow - Larry Bell

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Dear Hans: The most passionate times in the studio is the birth of a new idea. It gets all the juices that make being an artist flow. Sadly many wonderful ideas are not realized because one is in the wrong place at the wrong time. I chose to live a ...

Installation, Light, Mexico, Public art, Sculpture, Studio, Unbuilt Roads, Video, Water, Wind

U9635

01.01.1997

Milan House (AC/DC & Joy Division) - Liam Gillick

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In response to an invitation to propose a public art project anywhere in Italy I designed a house to be built in Milan. The basic drawings were completed and submitted for consideration. At this point an architectural practice in Milan became involved and ...

Architecture, House, Milan, Music, Public art, Unbuilt Roads

U9684

01.01.1992

Entwurf für einen erneuerten Malkasten 1992 - 1994 - Ulrike Holthöfer

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„Entwurf für einen erneuerten Malkasten" 1992 - 1994 Gemeinschaftsprojekt Jacobischer Garten/ Malkasten Düsseldorf: 22000 m2 großer historischer Garten und Gebäudesubstanz (Jacobihaus, Hentrichbau, Randgebäude) im Zentrum der Stadt Düsse ...

City Planning, Community, History, Paint, Society, Unbuilt Roads

U9497

07.04.1997

Jake and Dinos Chapman's five proposals for an empty plinth situated on central londons trafalgar square - Jake and Dinos Chapman

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commissioned by liberal daily broadsheet newspaper ironically suggesting the most unsuitable artists possible to produce the most unsuitable public sculpture never to be realized: ha ha ha, very funny we suggest one of the following: project 'Hawki ...

Drugs, Food, Guns, London, Public, Public Intervention, Science, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads

U9690

01.01.1995

Untitled, modeled after the Leipzig Völkerschlachtdenkmal... - Jenny Holzer

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Title of the project: Untitled, modeled after the Leipzig Völkerschlachtdenkmal, a lazer projection of Lustmord texts onto a 1913 Battle of nations Monument. (100yr in Leipzig, Germany anniversary of 1813 battle) Description: Jenny s ...

America, Germany, Memorial, Text, Unbuilt Roads, Values, War

U9293

01.01.1978

The World is a Theater and we each have a role - Louise Bourgeois

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A circular construction in wood, painted sky blue and white. In 3 dimensions. An upside down dome. A small figure stands in the center. (eventually reasons why the work has not be realized) Complicated and too expensive but never discarded. ...

Metaphor, Sculpture, Space, Unbuilt Roads, Universe, Wood

U9673

01.05.1981

WATERWORKS - Mona Hatoum

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Extracts from an unpublished interview with Michael Archer for Phaidon press: ...Around the same period I made a proposal for the New Contemporaries exhibition which was going to be held at the ICA. In those days the toilets were on either side of the ...

Body, Censorship, human, ICA, London, Public, Taboo, Unbuilt Roads, Video

U9665

01.01.1967

Unrealized Turtles 1967 - Joseph Grigely

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Basically, a short history about why I never became an illustrator of turtles - of wild animals - or of anything else At Birchland Park School, Mrs. Donahue taught art and Mrs. Corliss taught music. The art classes were okay because I drew turtles all ...

Animals, Drawing, Education, Turtles, Unbuilt Roads