Blum
Andrea Blum
Bird House, 2013
La Conservera - Murcia - Spain
Mixed media
5.90 x 12.45 x 11.10 m
Unique artwork
Courtesy Andrea Blum & Galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris
Andrea Blum
Bird House, 2013
Exhibition view and details
Andrea Blum
Bird House, 2013
Exhibition view and details
Andrea Blum
Bird House, 2013
Exhibition view and details
Andrea Blum
Bird House, 2013
Exhibition view and details
Andrea Blum
Bird House, 2013
Exhibition view and details
Andrea Blum
Bird House, 2013
Exhibition view and details
Andrea Blum
Bird House, 2013
Exhibition view and details
Andrea Blum
Bird House, 2013
Exhibition view and details
"Bird House":
Nature is a theme many artists have used to serve as a footnote or an add-on to the core of what they do. It is a subject that has a ?life of its own? that is malleable, familiar and thought of as exotic.
On occasion Andrea Blum uses ?living things ? in her work as a metaphoric device to mirror social behavior. These situational tableaux become social studies in comparisons, species to species, and us to them. The Birdhouse is a cage-like pavilion stocked with a variety of birds in a manufactured landscape. The architecture changes the observer to the observed and the liberated to the contained, dependent on being inside or outside the pavilion structure.
The Birdhouse (2008-2012) is made of heat painted steel and engineered for outdoor use. The roof is all weather corrugated plastic ; the floor treated plywood . The overall dimensions are variable , the pictured version is 6 m x 11m x 12m.