
Kålgård på Venedig Bienalen 2008
She found a large patch of scrubby wasteland, right at the back where the Arsenale buildings give way to boat repair yards. Here she made a clearing, planted a vegetable garden (complete with female scarecrow, hand-stitched by herself) to represent abundance, found an overgrown old storage building to act as a repository of memory, and made an exquisitely lovely floating white canopy of spinnaker fabric, supported by tethered white balloons, over a sculpted greensward, to represent enlightenment. Neil Thomas of engineers Atelier One made it work. These elements, she says, are the three traditional elements of Paradise
Läst på bloggen: GABION, www.hughpearman.com
Cabbage Patch Moll: beyond architecture at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2008, by Hugh Pearman, september 2008.
Se även:
Archnect, http://archinect.com
ShowCase: Towards Paradise, A Landscape Installation at the Venice Biennale
Kathryn Gustafson, Landskapsarkitekt, egen hemsida
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd, www.ggnltd.com
Gustafson Porter, www.gustafson-porter.com
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