Chris Burden's "Urban Light" sculpture – LACMA
Here shot mid day among the lampposts from the ground up. A cool piece of work though pretty mixed opinions when you look it up. BTW these are solar powered and all light up at night so enviro friendly. Pretty cool effect. I like it. And just 25 m away the B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden which is bursting with Rodin's... LACMA's range is amazing and a must stop for art lovers.
From:
Chase the Light blog
Urban Light incorporates 202 antique cast-iron lampposts from various cities in and around the Los Angeles area. In the 1920s, each city designed its own streetlamps as a form of public art and civic identity. Over the past seven years, Burden recovered and restored many of these vintage one-and-a-half ton lampposts. When they arrived at the artist's compound in Topanga Canyon in pieces, they were sandblasted and missing parts, including the hand-blown glass lanterns and globes, were fabricated or salvaged from other lamps. They were then painted a medium grey and electrified. The artist catalogued each street lamp by individual type according to the year of its manufacture, its original location, its height, and the number of lamps it contains. The artist describes the street lamps as, "a statement about what constitutes a civilized and sophisticated society: safe after dark and beautiful to behold."
