I don’t know how the likes of Kirstie Allsopp or Sarah Beany will feel about this one, but British artist Roger Hiorns has really done a great job of the “refurbishment” of this council flat in Elephant & Castle (London, UK). Indeed, he has been so good with this rennovation project that it has won the author a nomination for the coveted Turner Prize.
This mad copper sulfate fest – 75,000 litres of solution were required – which looks like something out of 20,000 Leagues under the sea, has today reopened for visitors.
Roger Hiorns. Seizure 2008. A Jerwood/Artangel Commission Harper Road, London. Courtesy of Corvi-Mora, London.
Health and Safety announcement: Scientists out there…. If the chemistry doesn’t work, please don’t throw it over your walls.
Bibiana Campos-Seijo
Tue 11 May 2010 at 12:15 pm
[...] Crystals – especially when they’re pretty colours you can watch them spring into existence in front of [...]
Wed 5 Oct 2011 at 3:47 pm
Those crystals look amazing