Vito Acconci and sculptures visitable

Murinsel Bridge, Graz Aconcci Studio 2003. BLDBLG

Coinciding with one of the most important artistic events of the year, Art Basel held in Florida, Design Miami and otorga Designer of the Year Award. This time the prize was awarded to the New York artist Vito Acconci.

Aconcci is a longstanding and artist noted for his installations and performances of Body Art. For a few years he would use his own body as a canvas for their personal creations. Escarifcación would perform actions on your skin and recordings in which body parts are used to express a personal view of himself and formal.

Hand and Mouth. Vito Aconcci, 1970. Image:Magazine Archive DOMUS

Interventions which become a hardness in some cases eschatological. As with Hand&Mouth, Super film 8 of 1970 in which puts his hand over her mouth until choking. Some have called this work for the first time as pornographic or extravagant. They are, however, examinations of the human body aesthetic limits. As Rosalind Krauss would indicate it is "pointing to the center", Instead of moving the attention from the canvas painting or screen to your body. Due to this, this scholar and American critics rate his work as an aesthetic of narcissism.

In years 80, Aconcci change their focus oriented their work towards intervention in public space. Start making installations and sculptures with a high component playful and participatory. In 1988 founded a collaborative team called Aconcci Studio has been dedicated to building constructions that generate intense and unexpected interactions for their heterodoxy Formal. The artist seeks to involve people in the use of public spaces to explore and broaden the spectrum of collective interactions that may occur in transit facilities and meeting.

The result is a kind of visitable sculptures large and which aim to provide a different view of the sculpture and traditional architecture. An example of this is accomplished in bridge Murinsel 2003 in the Austrian city of Graz

As a result of his appointment as Designer of the Year, the Miami Design District has awarded the reconstruction of a specific work. This is a scalable structure intended Playground game called Klein bottle and develop Aconcci originally for the "Art of the World", An international exhibition of experimental recreational equipment for children of refugees. The shape comes from the ideas of the German mathematician Felix Klein would try to expand the concept of the Möbius strip in three dimensions. A sculptural space where surfaces flow and twist until it is possible to clearly identify where it begins and ends inside the outside.