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 

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MONICA BONVICINI
Monica Bonvicini emerged as a visual artist and started exhibiting internationally in the mid-1990s. Her multifaceted practice investigates the relationship between architecture, power structures, gender and space. Her research is translated into works that question the meaning of making art, the ambiguity of language, and the limits and possibilities connected to the ideal of freedom. Dry-humored, direct, and imbued with historical, political and social references, Bonvicini’s art never refrains from establishing a critical connection with the sites where it is exhibited, its materials, and the roles of spectator and creator. Since her fi...
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