Artists: Marte Eknæs and Nicolau Vergueiro featuring Lisa Sitko
Exhibition title: Now Open Free Parking
Venue: What Pipeline, Detroit, US
Date: September 12 – October 17, 2015
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and What Pipeline, Detroit
The urban construction site is an ever-changing still life. Billboards, construction sites and parking lots accessorize the city and transform quotidian operations.
In this chronic tableau public space is a moldable terrain for unexpected uses, applications and conditions – a parking lot of transitory eclecticism.
Now Open Free Parking vacillates between art and service provision, extending the exhibition space to the city. It works against typical distinctions between public art and publicity, design and propaganda.
Marte Eknæs and Nicolau Vergueiro, Broom, Chronic Tableau, 2015
Marte Eknæs and Nicolau Vergueiro, Ozone 3, Untitled Blue and Yellow, Untitled, 2015
Marte Eknæs and Nicolau Vergueiro, Ozone 2, Untitled Pop’s Motel, Angel Pubes Panel 2, 2015
Marte Eknæs and Nicolau Vergueiro, Untitled, Angel Pubes 3, Angel Pubes 4, 2015
Marte Eknæs and Nicolau Vergueiro, Untitled, Ozone 4, 2015
Marte Eknæs and Nicolau Vergueiro, Untitled Sindicato dos Bancários Estado, Angel Pubes Panel 1, Ozone 1, 2015
Marte Eknæs and Nicolau Vergueiro, Chronic Sprawl variation, 2015
Marte Eknæs and Nicolau Vergueiro, Chronic Sprawl variation, 2015
Marte Eknæs and Nicolau Vergueiro, Ozone 2, 2015
Marte Eknæs and Nicolau Vergueiro, Untitled, Untitled, 2015
Lisa Sitko, Parking Reserved, Cones 1, 2 & 3, 2015
Lisa Sitko, Garbage bag with a posse of eggs, 2015
Lisa Sitko, Banana Spots, 2015
Lisa Sitko, Log Watermelon, 2015
Billboard at southwest corner of Michigan
Ave and Trumbull: What Pipeline Now Open Free Parking