Freeload
by Dennis Adams
Design and fabrication of the column by Mark Baumgartner Studio.
Link to pictures of the fabrication process In The Studio below.
Column Size: 6-1/4” W x 122” L x 6-1/4” D
15.9 cm W x 309.9 cm L x 15.9 cm D
1 video camera on either end of the column
Materials: Aluminum, stainless steel, stainless steel hardware
Installation View
The Column in Action
The project was created for the Mies van der Rohe Pavillion in Barcelona on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its construction. Adams produced a portable replica of one if the eight mirrored cruciform columns that support the Pavilion. By installing a miniature video camera in each of its ends, the artist transformed the column into a bi-directional camera designed to record forward and rear shots of a procession through La Mina, a social housing project in a district on the outskirts of Barcelona where the workers lived that created the Pavilion in 1929.
Text from the website of Kent Fine Art.
Following its procession through La Mina, the portable column was returned to the Barcelona Pavilion and installed in front of the small pool under the silent watch of Georg Kolbe’s statue, supported horizontally on two video monitors that display the recorded footage of its journey.
Text from the website of Kent Fine Art.
