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Urban Light (2008) is a large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden located at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The 2008 installation consists of restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s. Most of them once lit the streets of Southern California. [1] [2]
In 2008, Burden created Urban Light, a sculptural work consisting of 202 found antique street lights that had once stood around Los Angeles. He bought the lights from the contractor who installed Urban Light, Anna Justice. [47] The work is on view outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the solar-powered lights are illuminated at dusk.
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Urban Light at the entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Center, Los Angeles, is an assemblage of historical street lights taken from actual usage in Southern California in the form of a 2008 sculpture by Chris Burden. [27]
Chris Burden's Urban Light (2008) in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Wilshire Boulevard attracts hundreds of visitors daily, has been featured in several films as an iconic image of Los Angeles, and has become a tourist destination and popular public space. [15]
The performance spawned multiple reproductions. In 1999, an Israeli artist painted Burden after Shoot based on an image in Lucy Lippard's 1973 Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object. [10] Tom LaDuke's 2004 Self-Inflicted Burden is a three-foot self-portrait sculpture modeled after Burden after Shoot. [11]
The performance artist Marina Abramović sought to use the work in her Seven Easy Pieces but Burden denied her permission. [4] Dale Eisinger of Complex described Trans-Fixed as Burden's most captivating work in his 2013 list of the greatest performance art works. [5] David Bowie's "Joe the Lion" alludes to Burden's performance. [6]
Burden's performance, as photographed by Terry McDonnell 747 is a 1973 performance art piece by American artist Chris Burden . The piece is one of a number of photographs of Burden's work that is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.