Bus Shelter XII: Shattered Glass / The Confessions of Philip Johnson

Dennis Adams

Summary

The American object artist Dennis Adams designed a nested bus shelter for the 50th anniversary of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. The installation shows a large-format portrait of the architect Philip Johnson.

Services

Mechanical processing, high-gloss polish

Project manager

Marcel Glapski

Client

Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Year

2018

Shattered Glass / The Confessions of Philip Johnson

This artwork, designed by American object artist Dennis Adams, was created for the 50th anniversary of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. The piece is almost five meters long, three meters wide, and two meters high, and is a part of a series of bus stop installations that Adams began in 1983. Constructed from steel, aluminum, glass, and featuring two monitors, the installation was produced at the Arnold production site in Friedrichsdorf, Hesse.
With his signature circular glasses, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect now gazes out over the city's cultural landscape. Displayed on two monitors behind shattered glass panels, sentences ("Confessions") are played as a movie, blending a mix of quotes and fictional confessions crafted by Adams.

 

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