Tumblers
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Tumblers | Powder coated steel | T-Park | Wuxi | China
The Tumblers is based on notions of human movement realized in abstract forms. The forms used in The Tumblers are based on garment template patterns, common in the fashion & Textiles industry, and act as metaphors for the human body. These templates form part of a DNA of shapes that I use within my studio practice and are included in a wide range·of my public artworks: relating elegant abstract forms to human Identity.
The shapes are poetic in that they neither ascend nor descend, but energize the space that they are located within creating a focal point within the landscape. T-Park Wuxi (Tai-lake) International Technology Park is a cutting-edge interdisciplinary project approved and augmented by the State Council of the People's Republic of China; it is a symbolic project of Wuxi City, as an example of best practice and collaboration between pioneering technological innovation and the art s, not only in China but worldwide.
The notion of the Sustainable City is vital at this point in the 21st CenturyI together with how science, ecology, and art can be synthesized within this new development. The People’s Government of Wuxi New District in partnership with Hong Kong International Design Resources (Group) Co., Ltd. has initiated the MTLE international public art exhibition plan as. an example of best practice within the interdisciplinary cultures of Art and Science practice utilizing state-of-the-art technology.
Wuxi China Tai-Lake Pearl (T-Park.) is one of China's 15 economic centers, ranked 3rd best commercial cities (Forbes 2008): 7th for integration on of Arts & Sciences, (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences): top10 most dynamic cities, and 20 ·service outsourcing hubs in China.
MTLE has created a riverside ecological city that references the cultural heritage of River South Town, defined by its emphasis on ecology MTLE has reclaimed 60km waters, in order to facilitate leisure amenities and tourism that covers 2,200 acres.
'T-Park International Public Art Exchange & Creative Camp is ·the location for the "MTLE 2010 WUXI T-PARK international public art exhibition" which Atkin’s sculpture, Tumblers, is a part of, alongside representatives from other global communities.