Claes Oldenburg The Bottle Of Notes

A selection of vox pops I filmed next to The Bottle of Notes, Middlesbrough, August 2009. The sculpture is by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen and was unveiled by the artists in 1994.

The scultpure is situated in Middlesbrough's redeveloped civic square, next to mima (The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art).

This film explores the public's changing attitude to the Bottle and its assimiliation into a part everyday life.

The artists: "Coosje selected as the text for the outside of the Bottle of Notes an excerpt from Captain Cook's Journals describing an astronomer's observation aboard the ship: 'We had every advantage we could desire in Observing the whole of the passage of the Planet Venus over the Sun's disk.' Written out in Claes' broad, angular hand, in offwhite, this text formed the exterior of the bottle. In the interior, cutouts of Coosje's delicate script, in blue, spiral vibrantly upward, stopped only by the cylindrical cork, which the perforated exterior has rendered functionless. Character by character, nearly illegible, the swirling script spills out a line of one of the prose poems written by Coosje: 'I like to remember seagulls in full flight gliding over the ring of canals.' Recalling Amsterdam, the poem links the English shore to that of the European Continent. "

For more information on The Bottle of Notes visit: http://oldenburgvanbruggen.com/index.htm

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Claes
• Oldenburg;
• Coosje
• van
• Bruggen;
• mima;
• Middlesbrough;
• redevelopment;
• vox
• pops;
• Ian
• Robinson;
• Pancrack

[zorki28]

@undesirablenumber1 EXPANTAMENTE!

[undesirablenumber1]

Some great ambassadors for Boro, you found there lol. Mark.