Liverpool Bold Street – street art

There is some great street art on the pavements in Bold Street at the moment – nicely complementing the Liverpool Biennial.

Now that's what I call skill

Liverpool Biennial – Bridging Home

This piece of artwork – part of the Liverpool Biennial, an International Festival of Contemporary Art – was designed by Korean American Do Ho Suh.

Soeul is a very crowded city and because of its population density it is c0mpletely acceptable for an individual to invade another’s personal space. The perception of individual space is significantly different from elsewhere.

Memory and nostalgia also play a key role in his work.

Unfortunate Ends

Classical composers who came to unfortunate ends:-

George Butterworth - killed at the Battle of the Somme.
Jean-Baptiste Lully - hit himself on the toe with his conducting baton; it turned gangrenous, kiling him.
Anton Webern - shot by an American soldier by mistake when he nipped out for a smoke during a curfew at the end of the Second World War.
Enrique Granados - died on a cruise ship torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War I.
Harles Valentin Alkan - crushed to death by a falling bookcase.
Ernest Chausson - rode his bicycle into a brick wall.
Alexander Borodin - dropped dead on the dance floor in full national costume at a winter ball in St Petersburg.

Liverpool Biennial - Earth and Æther

This piece of artwork – part of the Liverpool Biennial, an International Festival of Contemporary Art – was designed specifically for the Chapter House of Liverpool Cathedral. It was created by artists in residence Lin Holland and Jane Poulton.

In the middle of the tiled floor is a large piece of red sandstone (of which the cathedral is made) which has been covered in gold leaf.

Hanging above it is a mirrored house. It explores man’s attempts. through the sanctification of earthly objects, to approach a sense of the sublime.