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other 2008 exhibitions › El Día de Los Muertos (MuertosDay of the Dead) › Tangled Up In You › Everybody Always Thinks They Are Right › Mickie Winters: Learning to Bend › Western Middle School Perspectives: Tableau Vivant › Marc Swanson: Beginning to See the Light › Marvin Francis: Prison's Paper Trail › Anthony Goicolea: Ramp

Anthony Goicolea: Ramp, 2006

November 2007 – January 2008
Street Level Gallery

Mixed media and sound
Commissioned for Calvin Klein Madison Avenue in 2006
Collection of 21c Museum Foundation

Anthony Goicolea’s Ramp is a sculptural and sound installation that continues the artist’s work of creating imaginative and abundant environments. This large skateboard ramp, or half pipe, is frozen and suspended in time while the natural elements of leafless trees and barren roots reclaim the abandoned man-made structure. In contrast, the half pipe is covered with repetitive markings, carvings, and graffiti tags that are almost obsessive and territorial in their repetition and seem like an urbanized form of instinctive animal traits and markings. A sound component can be heard from the piece of birds and skateboarders skating back and forth – both of which sound a bit like the respiratory system, pulse, or heartbeat of the sculpture. The abandoned ramp also serves as a reclaimed nesting ground for 10 white ptarmigan snow birds. This association of trees and birds in the skateboard ramp are elements of nature transplanted into an arctic urbanized landscape.

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