Friday, May 18, 2007

Please leave your comments here!

I saw this construction site when commuting to london, I could'nt understand what it was and where it had come from. thanks for the blog, it is very informative. I think the concept of the project is very interesting and I look forward to coming along to the gallery to find out more.
Written by: Stefan Kapur at 2007/05/10 - 21:19:56

I am sorry to have missed the Wolfgang Weileder installation at Milton Keynes which looks to have been an outstanding piece of public art adding to the discussion and debate around public space and architecture in an utterly captivating and engaging way.
A very well realised and ambitious project that is a credit to the MK Gallery.
Well done. 
Written by: MATTHEW ROWE at 2007/05/09 - 20:32:00


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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Panel Discussion at Milton Keynes Gallery - Excerpts from the discussion will be posted soon!

Speakers included:
Wolfgang Weileder, Artist
Michael Stanley, Director, Milton Keynes Gallery
John Best, Chief Executive, Milton Keynes Council
Marie Kirbyshaw, Senior Public Arts Officer
Anna Goulding, Researcher from the school of Art and Culture, Newcastle University

The discussion was chaired by Simon Guy, Professor of Architecture at The University of Manchester.

To find out more:

visit Project Space,

see www.mk-g.org

call + 44 (0) 1908 676 900

email info@mk-g.org

 

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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Did you see Transfer in Station Square?



Picture: Transfer by Wolfgang Weileder

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Transfer - Panel Discussion at Milton Keynes Gallery. 17 May 2007.

 

Picture: Transfer by Wolfgang Weileder

Panel Discussion at Milton Keynes Gallery

Thursday 17 May, 7 - 8pm, Free

This discussion brings together key figures involved in the Milton Keynes Gallery Offsite project Transfer by Wolfgang Weileder.

Speakers will talk about the making of the work in Station Square and its final visual form in the gallery as well as the social, political and environmental issues surrounding the work.

Speakers include:
Wolfgang Weileder, Artist
Michael Stanley, Director, Milton Keynes Gallery
John Best, Chief Executive, Milton Keynes Council
Marie Kirbyshaw, Senior Public Arts Officer
With representatives from the school of Art and Culture, Newcastle University and construction firm R.Bau

To find out more:

visit Project Space,

see www.mk-g.org

call + 44 (0) 1908 676 900

email info@mk-g.org

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The Project in Station Square. Please leave your comment.

In September 2006, Milton Keynes Gallery commissioned its most ambitious artwork to date sited in one of the largest public spaces in Milton Keynes .

Picture: Milton Keynes - Station Square

On leaving Milton Keynes Central Station, visitors to Station Square were met with Transfer, a full-scale replica of the gallery’s front architectural cube, by the German artist Wolfgang Weileder. Over a three week period builders aided by students from Milton Keynes College simultaneously constructed and deconstructed each elevation as part of the choreographed sequence that saw the physical and metaphorical ‘transfer’ from the gallery at one end of the city’s arterial Midsummer Boulevard, to the other.

Picture: Station Square - Transfer

The exact brick-for-brick replica materialised over time although never in its entirety. Each sidewall was built in sequence so that a shell of the space, 9 m high and 18 x 18 m wide, slowly moved around until the transfer of Milton Keynes Gallery’s Cube was completed.The process, part-performance, part-installation and part-event, was utterly compelling and undeniably a talking point for passers-by.

The process was not about changing the landscape but rather a method to invite debate, to encourage a new and fresh engagement with the surrounding architectural environment and to highlight the nature of our public spaces and our expectations of the contribution that art and artists can have in their shaping. Forming part of the gallery’s growing Offsite programme, Transfer makes a symbolic claim on public space as ‘cultural space’ via the imposition of the gallery building.

Picture: W. Welider: Transfer - black&white photography

The final outcome to the Transfer project takes the form of the exhibited time-lapse movie of the three week installation, together with a billboard-sized pin-hole camera photograph showing one of the spectacular views in Station Square.The elegance and simplicity of Weileder’s resulting work belie the artist’s technological sophistication and collectively, the multi-faceted elements to this project; the technical drawings, computer-generated images, the process of construction, the photographs, films and detailed publication complete a remarkable journey.

More about Milton Keynes Gallery:

http://www.mk-g.org/

More about Wolfgang Weileder:

http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/home/Weileder/cvweileder.html

http://www.transfer-project.org/

http://www.commissionsnorth.org/showcase/portfolio/168

Please leave your comment.

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The 'Bloomer' locomotive in Station Square in Milton Keynes. Where has it gone? Why?

Picture: The 'Bloomer' locomotive in Station Square in Milton Keynes

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