Artangel Trust, London (1992)
Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed.
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This text is an excerpt from Walker’s 1992 glossary previously published by Library Association Publishing, London.
Artangel Trust, London
Artangel Trust is a British, non-profit-making, “outreach” organization founded in April 1985, based in London, for me purpose of supporting and commissioning new public art in unusual locations. There is a commitment to take art out of the museums and to foster work which makes political or social interventions in both urban and rural environments. Artangel is funded by private sources and by corporate enterprises and it encourages temporary and site-specific works in preference to the traditional types of public sculpture (i.e. stone and bronze statues and monuments). Examples include: images by Les Levine (1985) and Barbara Kruger pasted up on billboards; images projected on to buildings by Krystof Wodiczko (1985); messages flashed up on “Spectacolor”— an animated display board in Piccadilly Circus— by Anne Carlisle and Jenny Holzer (1988). The director of Artangel in 1988 was Roger Took.
See also Billboard Art, Projected Art, Public Art, Site-Specific Art, Street Art.
Reference and further reading
> I. Hunter. “The Artangel Trust”, Artists’ Newsletter, March
1987, p. 23.
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