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Monday 11 August 2008

Art On The Underground

Anna Barriball's minimal typographic artwork 'About 60 miles of beautiful views.' is the latest commission by Art on the Underground to go on display on the Tube network.

Barriball will display a collection of evocative phrases taken from the back of found photographs. Printed in New Johnston font, the texts will be displayed on posters in advertising spaces across the network.

Customers traveling on the Underground will encounter unexpected phrases like ''About 60 miles of beautiful views.' or 'On way to birthday party.' or 'Looking back the way we had come.'. These cryptic texts are loaded with personal memory, yet connect with individual reasons for travel and the millions of private thoughts customers carry with them on their journeys. The phrases are distinctly personal and strangely visual, creating small windows into imagined vistas or glimpses into unidentified personal worlds, open to interpretation in their new context.

one of the pieces,
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View the rest of the images and some other artists work HERE


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1 comment:

witalit said...

Its always good to see new artists using their heads. Nice post though Lego, this is a serious one compared to your usual. Your normal posts are jokes still.