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Deyrolles Taxidermy Studio…
…46 Rue Bac, 75007 Paris.
“Enter into this toney upscale gardeners supply shop, with a twist. It seems very lively…yet you sense there is something else going on here. It is too small for them to do the level of business that this location would require. That’s because you haven’t seen half of the deal here. Walk up those alluring curved stairs. No that is not up to a private apartment. Now stand at the top of the stairs and begin to take in the fully amazing nature of this curator’s wonderland of natural life. Wow!”
Artists of Place #1
“A place comes into art loaded with content. An artist comes to a place in one of two ways: either loaded with content or like a clean slate, ready to receive, interpret and represent what is already there. If the former, an artist will displace the resident meanings of a place with his preconceptions about art. If the latter, she will make those meanings visible as if for the first time. In so doing, she may also make something that bears little resemblance to art; it may look like beach furniture, feel like a walking tour, read like an ethnic community library, sound like oral history, pass by like a parade or be organised like a photography competition. Having been made by an artist, though, it will be none of those things alone.”
Jeff Kelley: Keynote Address, ‘Public Art – The New Agenda’ 1993
Site & Place
“a site represents the constituent properties of a place – its mass, space, light, duration, location and material processes… a place represents the practical, vernacular, psychological, social, cultural, cerebral, ethnic, economic, political and historical dimensions of a site. Sites are like frameworks. Places are what fill them out and make them work. Sites are like maps…while places are the reservoirs of human content… A site feeds out of itself and a place feeds in. A place is useful and a site is used… Places are held in place by personal and common values, and by the maintenance of these over time… As remembered, places are thus conserved, while sites, the forgotten places, are exploited.”
Jeff Kelley: Keynote Address, ‘Public Art – The New Agenda’ 1993
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