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The 1440 Clock Project – two minutes in Warrensburg, Missouri

20 Monday Mar 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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1440 Clock project, Hugo Kriegel, missouri, public art, street art, Warrensburg

Artist Hugo Kriegel added two more minutes to his worldwide 1440 Clock street art project this past weekend in downtown Warrensburg.

He’s been working on this project for close to ten years. He paints the hour and minute (on a large scale) at the time he starts painting (with permission) in public places, films the process, compresses the film into sixty seconds, then places that minute in its location into a video ribbon that functions as part of a twenty-four hour clock.

Hugo Kriegel [2017 file photo].

The completed minutes in Warrensburg:

F 11, 1/60, ISO 100, 70 mm. Panorama from five images, perspective projection. 09:38, the first Warrensburg minute in the 1440 Clock Project. 110 E. Market St. in Warrensburg, Missouri

F 11, 1/60, ISO 100, 20 mm. Panorama from three images, perspective projection. 13H58, the second Warrensburg minute in the 1440 Clock Project. At the corner of Culton and Washington.

A short documentary on the work in progress:

The 1440 CLOCK Project from Hugo Kriegel.

On Saturday:

Hugo Kriegel (rght) painting 09:38 for the 1440 Clock Project.

On Sunday:

13H58 in Warrensburg – (left to right) Silje, Lisa Schmidt, Jerry Schmidt, Gary Grigsby, Anita Grigsby, Joan Ferguson, and Michael Bersin.
The second Warrensburg minute in the 1440 Clock Project.

The on site preparation for 13H58 started a little after noon, painting started at 1:58 p.m., and finished at 9:30 p.m.

The artist, from France, living in New York; a friend, Norwegian, living and working in Ethiopia, who used her vacation time and flew 38 hours to get to Warrensburg from Addis Ababa to help; and six other people from Warrensburg who thought painting on a wall and filming the process on a hot Sunday afternoon would be kind of fun.

It was.

Hugo Kriegel is my cousin.

Friday Public Art Blogging: Statue of Liberty

08 Friday May 2009

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Jefferson City, missouri, public art, Statue of Liberty

A reproduction of the Statue of Liberty in the small wedge of a park immediately south of the capitol building in Jefferson City (view south).

The plaque:

With the faith and courage of their forefathers who made possible the freedom of these United States

the Boy Scouts of America

dedicate this replica of the Statue of Liberty as a pledge of everlasting fidelity and loyalty

40th anniversary crusade

to strenghthen the arm of liberty

1950

Little Sisters of Liberty

…Between 1949 and 1952, in town after town across America, similar celebrations took place as Scouts dedicated more than 200 of the copper “Little Sisters of Liberty.”

The statues were located on capitol grounds, courthouse lawns, and main streets; in city parks, schoolyards, and libraries; and at Scout camps – all as part of Scouting’s 40th anniversary theme, “Strengthen the Arm of Liberty.”

Jack P. Whitaker, a Kansas City businessman and commissioner for the local Boy Scout council, originated the project after seeing a dedication of a Statue of Liberty replica made of chicken wire and concrete in Spirit Lake, Iowa.

Whitaker paid $3,500 to have an original mold made for the smaller Statues of Liberty. Then the Friedley-Voshardt Company in Chicago made the stamped-copper replicas. Each statue included more than 40 sheets of copper, about the thickness of a nickel, with a wooden frame on the inside.

The statues were then sold for a reported $300 to $350 each to Scout troops, who presented them to cities and towns in 39 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, and the Philippines…

Friday Public Art Blogging – Two Faces Monolith

13 Friday Feb 2009

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Matthew Zupnick, missouri, public art, Sedalia, Two Faces Monolith

Two Faces Monolith in Liberty Park (March 2008), Sedalia, Missouri – by Matthew Zupnick

A work in bronze and steel by Matthew Zupnick – a temporary installation in Sedalia, Missouri.

Matthew Zupnick is a Professor of art at the University of Central Missouri where he teaches Sculpture and Three-Dimensional Design. His previous positions include Visiting Assistant Professor in Sculpture at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Art Handler at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and a variety of teaching and museum positions in Upstate New York. Matt has been exhibiting his work throughout the United States for over ten years and has an extensive repertoire of solo, group, and juried exhibitions. He has also received many grants and awards for his artwork.

At this virtual gallery you can hear the music I wrote for (and utilizing) Matthew Zupnick’s “Two Ways”.

Friday Public Art Blogging

30 Friday Jan 2009

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Columbia, missouri, public art

Found on a wall in Columbia:

Discuss.

Photo courtesy of Flickr user miss birdnest hair under a Creative Commons license.

Friday Public Art Blogging

16 Friday Jan 2009

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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inauguration, missouri, public art, Royale, Saint Louis

Fitting for the inaugural weekend, I present to you reproductions of the famous Shepard Fairey Obama prints on the side of the Royale in Saint Louis, by day and by night.

Photos courtesy of a Creative Commons license by Flickr users MBK and prettywarstl, respectively.  

Friday Public Art Blogging

02 Friday Jan 2009

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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public art

Happy New Year, everyone!

Here at the corporate offices of SMP we had a staff meeting last week, and we managed to get a little work done, once a winner had been determined in the trash-can H-O-R-S-E game, that is.  (We do have priorities, after all, and between election cycles we take our trash-can basketball seriously!)

Today is our first installment of a new weekly feature we are calling Friday Public Art Blogging.  Contrary to the so-called conventional wisdom of the coasts, we do have access to and appreciation for the finer things in life.

Each week, we will be featuring an original photo of a different piece of public art installed somewhere in the state of Missouri.

So without further ado, here is our first offering.

Todays Quest Tomorrows Destiny

Today’s Quest, Tomorrow’s Destiny by Elizabeth Ritter

UCM Campus, Warrensburg

Photo by Michael Bersin

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