Shigeko Hirakawa
Public Art or Art in Public Spaces

Artworks in Public Spaces such as School, University, City Hall, Concert Hall, Grounds, Railway Station, Urban Settings, Nature...
Hélioflore/ Fleur photovoltaïque 2011

Le Vieux Port, Marseille, January 2011
6.3 m in diameter, 4.3 m high
Painted iron, solar panels etc.

Production in the framework of the International Chemical Year
organized by the U.N.E.S.C.O.
Supported by the Union of Chemical Industries in France.

Hélioflore/ Fleur photovoltaïque video
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Appel d'air/ Intake of Air 2010

Botanical Garden in Rouen, France

Production in the framework of the exhibition "Rouen impressionnée".
From the "Air in Peril" Project
Molecule of Oxygen installaion
Trees of Photosynthesis
to Intake of Air Page

Intake of Air Video
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rouen_map1.jpg Botanical Garden of the City of Rouen
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Over 160 m long
Floating Island 1992

1% Project of the Ile-de-France Regional Council
Van Gogh High-school (Aubergenville, France)
artpublic_auberge1.jpg Wood structures covered with copper sheets, epoxy vernish, inox cables,

2 sculptures of 4m x 1.5m suspended from the ceiling at 8.5m high

Purchased by the Ile-de-France Regional Council,




artpublic_auberge2.jpg Two oval elements, resembling boat hulls, float upside-down under the ceiling, hung by cables, at 8,5 meters high. The sculpture is inspired by the architecture of the place, which echoes the architecture of an airport. It assumes, in this space, the role of a warming centre, thanks to the warm tonality of the copper shell that covers its woodden structure. Each element is 4 meters long.

(Text from the catalogue "The 1% Art Projects in the Region of Ile-de-France, ART / HIGHSCHOOL, 1951 - 1993", Ile-de-France Regional Council)







Five Red Spheres 1999

Collection of the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Tokyo
(Tokyo Komaba)

artpublic_todai1.jpg Element : 154cm in diameter
Installation : 15m long
Discolored cloth on wood, vernish


Text


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Selected Artworks
1993 - 1998
Installation of 40 pieces in the City Hall. 
16m x 8m x 15m high

City Hall of
Choisy-le-Roi,
Solo Show in 1997
(Choisy-le-Roi, France)

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Installation: 275cmH x 750cmL
Element: 275cmH x 150cmL
Discolored cloth by sunlight on wood


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Decoration for the concert "the  Japanese Contemporary Music (Takemitsu, Ichiyanagi, Taira, Miyoshim Yoshida)"

Maison de la Musique de Nanterre
(Nanterre, France)
December 6, 2002



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Connected Air 2003 & Domesticated Water 2003


4 spheres of 530cm, 200cm, 150cm high, 
crystal-clear PVC, wood, turbine, air, electricity,

8 elements of 180cm & 150cm diameter,
water, crystal-clear PVC, fluorescein, wood

The Château d'O Grounds
Festival
(Montpellier, France)
May 2003



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Festival de l'Oh

Riverbank of Choisy
(Choisy-le-Roi, France)
May 2006


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Domesticated Water

180cm and 150cm in diameter
Installation: 18m long



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Family Tree/ Death
1997


Installation: 130m long

Riverbank of Sylguy
Triennale Mont-de-Marsan sculptures 1997
(Mont-de-Marsan, France)

 
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2m high Oak stumps



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Water Crater 2007


8m in diameter

Museum Square
Parcours Contemporain
(Fontenay-le-Comte, France)


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Molecule of Oxygen 2004


Installation: 25m long
Art Omi International Artist Colony (Hudson new York)


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Untitled 1989
wood, 36m long

Espace éclatés
(Trith-Saint-Léger city, France)



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Untitled 1988
Installation of 20 elements from 2m to 3,6m long

SNCF
Railway Station of Rochefort
(Rochefort, Fance)



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66m long
Installation: 30m high

School Grounds

Tecomah, Ecole de l'Environnement et du Cadre de vie
Les Environnementales (Jouy-en-Josas, France)
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1500 plastic discs, photochromic pigment

The City Hall Grounds of Argenteuil

Solo Show in 2006
(Argenteuil, France)


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1341 plastic discs, photochromic pigment

The King Manor Park
Jamaica Flux 2007
(Jamaica, New York, U.S.A.)


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