Michal Rovner’s Transitions unveiled at Crossrail Place, Canary Wharf station
Michal Rovner’s site-specific, 16-metre-long screen-based artwork Transitions was unveiled today, 3 October, at Crossrail Place, Canary Wharf station in London. Find out more here.
The unveiling is part of the wider Crossrail ‘Culture Line’ visionary art commissioning strategy for Crossrail by Futurecity in 2010.
The project falls outside Crossrail’s core funding. The Crossrail Art Foundation is raising funds from corporate funders, including Canary Wharf Group, with each contribution being match funded by the City of London Corporation. In order to raise the profile of this ambitious art project, Futurecity identified 7 of London’s leading international, commercial contemporary art galleries – one for each new Elizabeth Line station.
Artists were selected for each station, working alongside architecture and engineering teams to deliver an art programme fit for a 21st century transport system.
Today, 9 artists are creating 10 works of public art embedded into 7 of the new Elizabeth line stations. Click here to read the Crossrail Art Programme chapter in Futurecity’s ‘Imagine. Create. Connect.’ book.
Other Futurecity Culture + Infrastructure Projects to Explore:
Melbourne Metro (Melbourne, Australia)
Me. Here. Now. by Mark Titchner (London, UK)
Optic Cloak by Conrad Shawcross RA (London, UK)
Slipstream by Richard Wilson RA (London, UK)