Art is everywhere, not just in museums. grace banks The book rounds up the world’s best places to experience offbeat art art getaway (Gestalten), Niki de Saint Phalle, Sol LeWitt and Mark Rothko highlighted some of the best works in forests, streets and even churches. We’re highlighting some of the places to visit as we start planning our summer holidays art getaway that deserve a spot on your summer itinerary.
What do Prada and Berlin’s most avant-garde contemporary art duo have in common? one of the following boutique pop-up Most viewed in the world. Located in the heart of the Chihuahuan Desert (Texas), minutes from the small town of Valentine and a forty-five minute drive from Marfa, this charming town, straight out of a Spaghetti Westerninspired Elmgreen and Dragset to one of their most iconic works: a boutique Prada in the middle of the southern United States.
Prada Marfa is an installation by artist team Elmgreen & Dragset and built by architectural duo Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello as a “sculptural intervention” in the arid desert. After that opening summer 2005Prada Marfa is finished in some of the most diverse feed From Beyonce to Hans Ulrich Obrist, the world has the holy grail of Instagrammers, and now artistic destinations. Perhaps surprising for an installation that is often regarded as a critique of luxury fashion and consumerism.
But it’s not about art colliding with fashion. Featuring Prada clothing, shoes and accessories hand-picked by Miuccia Prada, Prada Marfa is as much a celebration of fashion’s casual sense of humor and critique of urban life as the latest feat of competence., working with Prada, one of the most recognized brands in the world, and keeping one of its boutique – Always located in the richest global cities – in a desert hundreds of kilometers from the capitals of art and fashion, Elmgreen and Dragset recommend the countryside as a viable cultural destination over the metropolis.
Elmgren and Dragset wanted the play to act as “a project”. land art architectural pop”, and the sculpture asks many of the same questions that earth artists such as Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson and Ricardo Serra did in the 1970s. What happens when a work of art is in a natural landscape that needs its elements to be successful? Artist Donald Judd first attracted the art world to Marfa in the 1970s, when he moved there and began toying with the idea of art in non-traditional spaces with his Chinati Foundation. Via Prada Marfa, Elmgreen and Dragset follow suit by insisting, like many great artists on earth, that not repaired boutique to blend naturally into the surrounding desert landscape, Although it will take a long time for this to happen, the building has been built by San Fratello & Rall with sturdy adobe bricks on a thick aluminum frame.
The small town of Marfa enjoys iconic status in the art world. After Judd bought a house in the city, a steady stream of fans, musicians, artists and writers followed him to visit. The meaning of this legendary position It’s not just the artwork that counts, it’s the journey that countsAnd visitors often stop during the short drive from Marfa on Highway 90 to catch that distinctive smell of the desert.
Artist Boyd Elder was the caretaker of the facility during its formative years. Labeled “the most famous artist you’ve never heard of” by the local newspaper Texas MonthlyHundreds of people have watched as they pose for photos of the sculpture’s glamorous glass showcase, bringing the excitement of seeing fashion and art to this historic destination.
