RedBall Project

RedBall UK

RedBall UK
Coming Summer 2012…

Co-produced by Torbay Council and The Dartington Hall Trust

This summer, New York artist Kurt Perschke brings his celebrated art project, the fifteen foot inflatable RedBall, to the UK for its first ever tour. Arriving on the streets of Torbay in June, RedBall then tours the South West, arriving in Weymouth in time for the Olympics, before travelling to London’s South Bank.

TORBAY
PLYMOUTH
EXETER
WEYMOUTH
LONDON

Press Representative for RedBall UK tour:
Alison Wright PR
Tel: +44 (0)1608 811 474
Email: alison@alisonwrightpr.com

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'Perschke's uncanny ability to conceive a tight and tense fit for RedBall, the contrast between the bright red sphere and the white Meier facade, with its perky geometry and pretensions to modernist rationalism, gave RedBall a particular humor. I personally felt a sort of spoof was at hand.'
Jeffrey Swartz, Barcelona Curator
'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
'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

Kurt Perschke's RedBall Project

RedBall UK

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