Main entry:

Faustino, Didier Fiuza, 1968- artist.

Title & Author:

Stairway to heaven / Didier Fiuza Faustino

Publication:

Paris : Onestar Press, 2003

Description:

1 online resource (76 PDF pages) : illustrations

Restrictions:

Open access

Notes:
"Published 2003; 140 x 225 mm; 150 pages; Cover: Paperback, color, glossy finish; Binding: glue bound; Interior: black and white; Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies"--Publisher's description
"Stairway to heaven, a public space for individual use. Building in process. Architect: Didier Fiuza Faustino / BUREAU DES MESARCHITECTURES Creative team: Didier Fiuza Faustino, Pascal Mazoyer. Collaborators: Nicolas Hugoo, Xaver Marschalek, Philippe Smith. Construction: Lovarte Lda Client: Ministério da Cultura Three levels concrete staircase, leading to a 4m2 metal-latticed platform with a basketball. Located on Praça dos Arômas, Castelo Branco, Portugal.This project is an interrogative as much as asservative answer to the implicit request made by the municipality for a piece of urban art. Given the unacknowledged rejection of the big housing programme nearby, Stairway to heaven (re)calls (for) that close presence by reprising the motif of the stairway, a place of encounter and safety. Refusing to act as a totemic sculpture that transforms the site into a place of individual submission (to artistic prestes, to political demands), the project invites each person to appropriate it and gives them the chance to momentarily dominate the territory on their own. Like in act of communion, a sharing in isolation. Winner of the price for public contemporary art "Prémio da Tabaqueira 2001," Portugal." -- Publisher's website
Title from PDF page 1

Summary:

"Three levels concrete staircase, leading to a 8m2 metal-latticed platform with a basketball. Located on Praça dos Arômas, Castelo Branco, Portugal. This project is an interrogative as much as asservative answer to the implicit request made by the municipality for a piece of urban art. Given the unacknowledged rejection of the big housing programme nearby, STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (re)calls (for) that close presence by reprising the motif of the stairway, a place of encounter and safety. Refusing to act as a totemic sculpture that transforms the site into a place of individual submission (to artistic pretexts, to political demands), the project invites each person to appropriate it and gives them the chance to momentarily dominate the territory on their own. Like in act of communion, a sharing in isolation."-- provided by distributor.

Resources:
Full text PDF

ISBN:

2915359059
9782915359053

Subject:

Stairs in art.
Marches d'escalier dans l'art.

Form/genre:

Artists' books.
artists' books (books)
Livres d'artistes.

Added entries:

Onestar Press, publisher.
Europe.
France Paris.