Shigeko HIRAKAWA
- Spinning Ellipses
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Five elliptical lawns : 300x200cm, 400kg each (grass, iron, sand)

Spinning Ellipses 1992

- 5 elliptical lawns suspended among trees
(elliptical lawn : 300x200cm, 400kg, grass, iron, sand)

- 5 elliptical bassins filled with coloured water, spread out on the ground in a spiral form :
elliptical bassins : 350cm, 30m-long installation in total
(water, fluorescein, pvc, copper sheets)

Competition
Show "Sculptors in the City",
Homage to Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
May 15 to June 28, 1992

Longues Allées Parc in Saint-Jean-de Braye city, France
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There are several spots in the form of globes flattened at the poles.

They seem to revolve on a complex orbit in the greenery.

You would like to come closer, but going near one makes the others retreat.

You feel transported to a discovery of the sumptuousness of the Universe.


Text by Shigeko Hirakawa
- from the catalogue "Sculptors in the City" 1992
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Catalog
"Sculptors in the City/ Sculpteurs dans la Ville, Homage to Henri Gaudier-Brzeska"
Texts Serge Fauchereau (critic), Jean-Pierre Lapaire (mayor of Saint-Jean-de-Braye)
Coordination Nancy Tarrius
ISBN N°2.906776.06.8
1992