Special cement mixer comes to St. Louis
The Laumeier Sculpture Garden, which draws approximately 300,000 visitors annually, is 40 years old this year, and is celebrating the occasion by installing a new sculpture that pays tribute to an American icon – the cement mixer.
The park is a popular St. Louis attraction, covering 105 acres and offering both indoor and outdoor experiences for visitors, who can wander miles of trails.
Its newest addition is by Alexandre da Cunha, and is titled ‘Mix (Americana)’. He created the art in 2013 and, as it happens, it just honor the cement mixer; it is a cement mixer. Da Cunha painted an actual mixer white, blue, and red, and mounted it so that it serves as a sundial. People can see the sculpture when they come to the lower entrance from the parking lots.
Sculpture garden staff noted that when visitors peer into the steel chamber, light will refract and reflect around the mixer, creating a web of shapes and shadows, and making an ordinary industrial object mysterious and beautiful. The exhibit, they hope, will promote discussion about the way in which natural and manmade environments interact.
Mix (Americana) is a gift from the artist himself, and New York's CRG Gallery. It is one of several works that explores the issues that arise when nature and man meet.
Organizations like these can benefit when they work with brochure printing companies, who can create booklets that explain specific exhibits.
The park is a popular St. Louis attraction, covering 105 acres and offering both indoor and outdoor experiences for visitors, who can wander miles of trails.
Its newest addition is by Alexandre da Cunha, and is titled ‘Mix (Americana)’. He created the art in 2013 and, as it happens, it just honor the cement mixer; it is a cement mixer. Da Cunha painted an actual mixer white, blue, and red, and mounted it so that it serves as a sundial. People can see the sculpture when they come to the lower entrance from the parking lots.
Sculpture garden staff noted that when visitors peer into the steel chamber, light will refract and reflect around the mixer, creating a web of shapes and shadows, and making an ordinary industrial object mysterious and beautiful. The exhibit, they hope, will promote discussion about the way in which natural and manmade environments interact.
Mix (Americana) is a gift from the artist himself, and New York's CRG Gallery. It is one of several works that explores the issues that arise when nature and man meet.
Organizations like these can benefit when they work with brochure printing companies, who can create booklets that explain specific exhibits.