Cultural Center – Last Day

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Swan Song Rising

So this is it, the last installation of the RedBall in Chicago, which just happened to coincide with the final day of the World Music Festival. Not only was the Cultural Center and surrounding area filled with music but also the raw emotion associated with any sort of closing moment and, of course, RedBall.

And this particular site was not an easy one. Perschke decided to challenge the now seasoned RedBall team by asking them to actualize his vision of the RedBall as a 250 lb. event suspended between the second floor balcony and the windows above the south entrance. The crowd literally cheered as RedBall was rolled over the balcony and lowered into place. Just an innocent ball looming over all who enter

RB Quotes

'The temporary has the potential to afford public participation in its making of during its life. So, RedBall lives in all its conceived or carried-out musings on lace, in all the impossible places it occupied but could not remain. Whereas for the Kapoor (sculpture in Millennium Park) great lengths were taken at great expense to achieve the near impossible, RedBall breathes because of its temporality. RedBall invokes impermanence in its constant mutability and migration.'
Mary Jane Jacob 'Art Outside In, Inside Out', essay
'He exemplifies a generation that neither subscribes to the Modernist, formalist notion of redesigning, aesthicizing, beautifying, nor to the Postmodernist confrontation of injustices paved over and social needs abandoned. Aware of both, he maintains a flexible position. For artist such as Perschke, the possibilities for public art are open and multiple, unlimited as an engagement of sites and people-in-place.'
Mary Jane Jacob 'Art Outside In, Inside Out', essay
'Every time a passerby says - 'You know, I know the perfect place to put it!' - RedBall has succeeded in creating a moment of imagination. This is the core of the Project's goal, not the object itself, but how in relation to a site and in the context of its temporary movements, the passerby can immediately take it on as an imaginative act.'
Kurt Perschke, Artist
'One of the best things about RedBall Project is that it's really very funny. The absurdity of this balloon-at-large makes you smile. It also brings, like all good sculpture, a compulsion to reach out and touch.'
Matt Buchanan, The Sydney Magazine
'RedBall straddles the realms of formalist sculpture, street performance, ephemeral urban installation and hands-on art object, without ever deciding for any one terrain over the others - its presence in Barcelona was an unequivocal success.'
Jeffrey Swartz, Barcelona Curator

Kurt Perschke's RedBall Project

Cultural Center – Last Day

RB Quotes