Another: view through glass toward "clock"

This work, Another is in the vast atrium of the Price Center East, a 2008 addition to the original student center. Making a visual intervention at this complex site which combines dining, studying, shopping and socializing, was both a challenge and an opportunity. The large interior wall that dominates the central space now bears a massive double image of clocks which is punctuated by terrazzo-like areas that contain the following phrases: ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER NIGHT, ANOTHER IDEA, ANOTHER DREAM, ANOTHER SONG, ANOTHER FEAR, ANOTHER JOB, ANOTHER EXAM, ANOTHER SMILE, ANOTHER BOOK, ANOTHER SWEATER, ANOTHER CAR, ANOTHER LOVE, ANOTHER LIFE. The clocks’ consideration of time, coupled with these phrases, suggests the increments of moments, objects, and events that comprise our days and nights. Two LED displays show live current news and surfing reports, adding another level of interest, as well as meaning, and suggesting how our lives are, to some degree, culturally inflected, constructed and contained.

This combination of graphic image and moving text creates a space which functions on both a pictorial and a time-based level. The visual motif of the wall is extended to the floor by the use of terrazzo rectangles placed throughout the area. These color blocks contain quotes from prominent figures in both the arts and sciences. (see Stuart Collection website for list). The expansiveness of the wall and floor anchor the area with powerful images and, with the texts, create a space of visual pleasure, comfort, and relevancy.

"When the architects for the new building came to me and asked if I might have any ideas for this huge wall, I thought immediately of Barbara who is fantastic with scale and graphics. She taught at UCSD for 5 years before returning to UCLA. The particular area in this building here feels kind of like an airport, or a train station, a place where one is thinking about time. Barbara put clock images and rectangles (recalling those in the floor) with things or words that might refer to how we measure time. Then on the Reuters news tapes you get what is happening in the world right this minute. When she saw the actual space she immediately thought she had to deal with the floor as well as the wall. You can see the floor from balconies on all floors. So on the floor she inserted timeless quotes: 'I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.' 'Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere might be happy.' 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' etc.

We had a 'hard hat' party in the space to raise funds before it was finished and a larger celebration when it was done." - Mary Beebe, director of the Stuart Collection

• 2008

• Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.)

• Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)

• Kruger, Barbara (American conceptual artist, designer, and writer, born 1945)

• Beebe, Mary Livingstone (American, born 1940)

Price Center: University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California, United States

mixed media

• Aphorisms
• Environments (sculpture)
• Murals (any medium)
• Political art
• Public art
• Public sculpture
• Quotations (texts)
• Signage
• Site-specific works
• Terrazzo
• Texts (document genres)

• University of California, San Diego--History

• American
• Billboards (site elements)
• Cherry pickers
• Clocks
• Communication (function)
• Construction workers
• Consumers
• Contemporary
• Dining halls
• Education
• Graphic arts
• Illustrations (layout features)
• News bulletins
• Pop (fine arts styles)
• Seating
• Skylights
• Stairs
• Students
• Time
• Wire services

Point: 32.87981, -117.235754

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Architecture and City Planning

Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art

Graphic Design and Illustration

Paintings

Photographs

Sculpture and Installations

• Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)

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2022-10-27