• June 28, 2005
  • Posted by Marc

Shit We’re Diggin… Facundo Newbery’s Permanent Shadow Paintings

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/>Nicked from Facundo’s website:

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“This work consists in painting the outline of shadows created by
the streetlights and fixed objects. This have been done in numerous cities
around the world mostly in chalk or in washable paint, giving to this work a
temporary quality to play as a contrasting point of the permanence of the
shadow.

This outlines would be abstract drawings during the day but
at night when the street lights turn on this objects will cast a shadow again
inside this out lines showing the existence of the shadows in the sidewalk,
which usually go by unnoticed, giving a different perspective and interest to
the sidewalk we walk on, when walkabouts find something in their every day path
that’s been always there, but only as a consequence of combinations of usually
practical elements such as artificial lights and parking regulations signs that
by a simple white outline they become an active part of the urban landscape .
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Street lights are also not always the same tint what ads as well the
existence of color to this painting for example if in a corner there is a blue
tinted light and further a peach tinted one, being a shadow the complementary
color the light source, the white in each light will subtract the black on the
shadow and the color will add to the existing color creating this way very
bright orange and green shadows which highlighted by the white outline gives one
more touch of surprise to the piece.

The location of all this fix
objects makes the possibilities of shadows casting the same composition in two
places almost impossible.”