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Materials: 5,000 black pencils, sand, iron frame and polycarbonate.
Normal Superior Sarmiento School.
San Juan/Argentina
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Materials: 5,000 black pencils, sand, iron frame and polycarbonate.
Normal Superior Sarmiento School.
San Juan/Argentina
UNTITLED
Size: 2 m wide x 4 m long x 0.20 m tall
Materials: 5,000 black pencils with rubber, yellow exterior, sand, iron frame and polycarbonate.
Location: Boulevard of L. Alem Avenue (between Laprida street and San Martín Avenue) in front of Normal Superior Sarmiento School.
In a structure similar to a garden, about five thousand pencils were installed. In this "Planting Pencils", as a nursery of some vegetal sort, students from many schools were involved, carving the letters of the name on the top of the pencils. The work was exposed for a couple of days, when pencils began to disappear leaving the garden empty.
The decision to include this project within the institutionalized education system was to achieve the interaction between children, teachers of visual arts, supervisors and other referents of the educational field, by making concepts related to public art circulate here.
The choice of black pencil was due to its infallible relationship to education and school, and also to the history of the place in which the work was installed. This space, that now occupies a block of Alem Avenue, was the original garden of the Normal Superior Sarmiento School. Other relationships established by the pencil element are also important. This is used to express the knowledge of those who use it, to express the learned and to be learned, the desired and the imagined, among many other things. The pencil contains within itself possibilities of projection. It is primarily an object of mediation.
Carving the initials of their own names on the pencils is a common action among school children to mark it with a personal data, for appropriation, identification or not to lose it. This action sought to add identities during the final installation, while to project individualities in a public space.
Size: 2 m wide x 4 m long x 0.20 m tall
Materials: 5,000 black pencils with rubber, yellow exterior, sand, iron frame and polycarbonate.
Location: Boulevard of L. Alem Avenue (between Laprida street and San Martín Avenue) in front of Normal Superior Sarmiento School.
In a structure similar to a garden, about five thousand pencils were installed. In this "Planting Pencils", as a nursery of some vegetal sort, students from many schools were involved, carving the letters of the name on the top of the pencils. The work was exposed for a couple of days, when pencils began to disappear leaving the garden empty.
The decision to include this project within the institutionalized education system was to achieve the interaction between children, teachers of visual arts, supervisors and other referents of the educational field, by making concepts related to public art circulate here.
The choice of black pencil was due to its infallible relationship to education and school, and also to the history of the place in which the work was installed. This space, that now occupies a block of Alem Avenue, was the original garden of the Normal Superior Sarmiento School. Other relationships established by the pencil element are also important. This is used to express the knowledge of those who use it, to express the learned and to be learned, the desired and the imagined, among many other things. The pencil contains within itself possibilities of projection. It is primarily an object of mediation.
Carving the initials of their own names on the pencils is a common action among school children to mark it with a personal data, for appropriation, identification or not to lose it. This action sought to add identities during the final installation, while to project individualities in a public space.