MONICA BONVICINI
RUN

QUEEN ELIZABETH OLYMPIC PARK, LONDON, UK
PERMANENT INSTALLATION SINCE 2012

In 2010, Monica Bonvicini won the public competition of the Handball Plaza Light Art Commission in the framework of the London Olympic Games 2012. The largescale, permanent outdoor sculpture RUN was completed in spring 2012. In daylight, the letters act as a mirror for visitors and reflect their surroundings, and at night the letters become more transparent and glow with complex internal LED lighting.

Permanent outdoor sculpture at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, commissioned in the framework of the London Olympic Games 2012.
12 mm ESG white-glass with inside IpaChrome coating, PVB Foil, 10mm TVG white-glass; DiBond mirror, stainless steel, stainless steel cover (with mirror polished surface), high-performance-LED in plastic cover
Overall dimensions: 2150 x 900 x 1860 cm

© Images Monica Bonvicini 

FEATURED ARTIST

MONICA BONVICINI
Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965 in Venice, Italy) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She studied in Berlin and at Cal Arts, Valencia, CA. From 2003 – 2017, she was Professor for Performative Arts, Spatial Strategies, and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Beginning in October 2017 she assumed the Professorship for Sculpture at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany. Bonvicini has earned several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (1999), the National Gallery Prize for Young Art, Berlin, Germany (2005), and Oskar-Kokoschka Preis, Vienna, Austria (2020).

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