Comment Mike Nelson: The Coral Reef, Tate Britain - 11/6/11
Hidden behind an unassuming door in a corner of Tate Britain, Mike Nelson’s Coral Reef installation invites visitors to explore a parallel world.
Hidden behind an unassuming door in a corner of Tate Britain, Mike Nelson’s Coral Reef installation invites visitors to explore a parallel world.
Interior of St. Peters in Rome. The viewpoint of the perspective is raised, in order to enlarge the space. People appear very small. Eques Carolis Fontana´s section drawing of St. Peter in Rome. More drawings of Sankt Peter to be found here: http://saintpetersbasilica.org/Plans/
Drawing of the cuppola with the scaffolding for painting the frescos.
Michelangelos Plan of Sankt Peters
Megalomania expressed by a door.
The door to the study of the Fuehrer. It is six meters high, constructed out of mahogany wood and German marble and decorated with the initials “A. H.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Angel_House
http://gothamist.com/2006/04/22/brooklyns_broke.php
Mr. Wood has already completed many details that most people would leave until later. In the ”kitchen” (a dusty landing littered with tools), a piece of PVC pipe is built into the only wall. Peering through it, one’s eye is guided to another pipe in an exterior wall 20 feet away. Through these pipes the viewer can read the clock on the Williamsburg Bank more than a mile away. My kitchen clock said Mr. Wood.