HOLT turns the city into a gallery of ‘Concrete Art’

The City of Sydney local government authority has developed a ‘Hoardings Policy’ to manage street-facing hoardings used to screen and protect the public from building developments around the city.

HOLT turns the city into a gallery of ‘Concrete Art’

BY Tess Ritchie

December 17th, 2014

The council saw an opportunity to re-purpose and reinterpret these hoarding spaces as public artworks, enhancing the public domain and making a meaningful contribution to ‘Creative City’ Sydney. Commissioned to contribute a series of pieces, which would use these hoardings as a blank canvas, was brand and design studio HOLT.

The response from HOLT was to draw upon the ‘Concrete Art’ abstractionist movement, which was first introduced by Theo van Doesburg in his ‘Manifesto of Concrete Art’ in 1930: “Abstractionism must be free of any symbolical association with reality…lines and colours are concrete by themselves”.

HOLT created a series of eight compositions incorporating geometric elements and simple flat colour to engage with the public and contrast the immediate environment.

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ART MEETS WORK :: Hybrid, adaptable spaces are of

ART MEETS WORK :: Hybrid, adaptable spaces are of course becoming familiar qualities of cutting-edge workplace design. The traditional office comprising merely desks and meeting rooms no longer cuts it, whether considered from the point of view of visitors to the space – such as @anz_au ’s clients in this case – or of the employees who are looking for reasons to attend work in person.

The interesting move that @foolscapstudio has made in this design is to create a sharply delineated gallery space, named ANZ Centre Gallery, that sits in striking distinction to the more regular working spaces.

Instead of threading pieces of art into the office, merging work and art in one place, at least some of the collection has been granted its very own place – not art in the workplace but a gallery over and above it.

Words @taroby Photography @willem_dirk

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