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Home My WebLink AboutLove at First Ride - Wiktor SzostaloCity of Carmel Carmel Public Art Advisory Committee (CPAAC) Art Installation Proposal to CPAAC Submission Date: Proposed Public Art Information Title: Love at First Ride Artist: Wiktor Szostalo Medium: Steel Artist Location: St. Louis, MO Cost: $40,000.00 Dimensions: 15' long, 12' wide, 8' tall Anticipated Maintenance Required, Schedule and Cost: N/A Was this specific art installation competitively bid? The art piece was selected when the project called out to competitively bid, for the relevance to the project and is an original piece. Proposed Public Art Location: Location: Monon Boulevard and 61h Street Intersection Modifications Needed to Location (including pedestals and hardscape): Statement supporting chosen art, artist and location: Please submit photo or sketch of proposed art, artist bio, and location photo along with any plans for area around location if changing. Please also provide information and pictures or sketch of other art considered for this location including artist bios. Submitter Information: Name: Title: Contact Information for More Information: Name: Jeremy Kashman Title: City Engineer Department: Phone Number: Department: Engineering Phone Number: 317-571-2441 Rev.1 THIS PAGE TO BE COMPLETED BY SUBMITTER Contact is highly encouraged to attend next CPAAC meeting to discuss this submission. Meetings are held third Tuesday of each month at 7PM in the City Hall Caucus Room. Received by CPAAC by: Date Received: Carmel Public Art Advisory Committee (CPAAC) Feedback Meeting Date: Proposal representative present: Is submission complete? Yes No If not, what other information is needed? CPAAC individual member vote on proposed location: Acceptable Not Acceptable Abstain Not Present Full CPAAC recommendation on proposed location based upon member vote: Support Undecided Does Not Support CPAAC Comments on art and location: Final Resolution on Proposal by City of Carmel: Date Resolution Entered: Rev. I THIS PAGE TO BE COMPLETED BY CPAAC Block & White Interantlonal, LLC Engineering Department - 2017 Appropriation It p.O.It: Contract Not To Exceed $40,000.00 EXHIBIT A Below are the dimensions and a short description of the sculpture, both technical and artistic/conceptual. "Love at First Ride" will be: 15' long, from from wheels to rear; 12' wide at the 'handle bar' level, and 8' wide at the ground level, at the'wheels% 8'tall. The 'wheels' and all elements of the "bicycles" other than "frames' will be made of laser, or plasma cut 118" (3mm) thick Corten steel sheet, welded with Content wire. The "(rames' will be made of 3132" stainless steel tubing cut into smaller pieces and re -welded with stainless steel wire for both more strength and my "signature" unique look. All of It will be thoroughly ground and polished to be absolutely safe to touch and sit on. The approximate weight will be 550 to 600lbs, and a sufficient foundation for it, I tested on similar sculptures of mine, will be 4 to 5 rebar reinforced concrete pillars 20" in diameter, poured 3' deep Into the ground, into which the 4 outside wheels will be anchored, plus one might be added for the bicycles in the middle. When the sculpture is completed I will provide a footprint for the foundation, My 'Love at First Ride" is about three things at once: LOVE, of parents with two kids, who are enjoying each other and Nature, while riding bicycles, which In Itself contributes to cleaner air and saving our natural environmentll! And makes us healthier:) The most important metaphor of this sculpture, both humorous and warm is the one handle bar holding all of the "bicycles' together. No one person decides where It's going, they are 'caught" in It really together. It doesn't even look it's gonna work, but somehow it is, and it's fun. Well, isn't It a suiting metaphor for love? The sculpture will be Interactive, people young and older will be allowed to touch it and safely climb it, to both play, and of course to take selAes and lots of pictures in general, "Wk�"wrMaw..fHly, 1W�, fiol, uq "m"„tiul N,"i-nAll I. K11 Wiktor Szostalo Sculptor, Painter Born: Aug. 22, 1952, Lithuania. Lives: 4398 Chouteau Ave. Obroty 13 St. Louis, MO 63110, USA 78-100 Kolobrzeg, Polska Tel: (314) 584-9613; (314) 269-0567 +48 602 123 831 www.wsart.com, www.treehtiggerproiect.com, wszostalo@yahoo.com Education 2003 Glass blowing, private instruction at Third Degree Glass Studio. St. Louis, Missouri. 1998 Kiln casting glass; private instruction with Keith Seibert, Royal College, London, England. 1983 2 week workshop on welding stainless steel with Marian Owczarski, St. Mary's College, Orchard Lake, MI 1979 Street Performance workshop with Ewa Benesz, Former actress of Jerzy Grotowski's "Laboratory Theater" 1978 M.F.A Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland Professional experience 1978- present Studio Artist 1994- 1995 Artist -In -Education, State of Alabama, 1 year residency at St. John - Resurrection School, Montgomery, Alabama 1986- 1990 Product Development Manager, CENCIT, Inc., St. Louis, MO, Design, production and supervision of computer generated portrait Sculpture. 1986- 1990 Painting and Drawing Instructor, Washington University, School of Fine Arts and Fine Art Institute, St. Louis, MO 1986- 1990 Drawing and Sculpture Instructor, Florissant Valley Community College, St. Louis, MO 1983 Artist -In -Residence, School of The Ozarks College, Point Lookout, MO 1983- 1986 Art Instructor at various St. Louis, cultural institutions, including St. Louis Art Museum, Craft Alliance, Honors Art High school 1980- 1981 Chairman, Regional Board of the SOLIDARITY, Koszalin, Poland Representative to the National Committee of SOLIDARITY, Gdansk, Poland. 1978- 1980 Director/ Founder of the Experimental Theater of Miracle Plays, working beyond communist state censorship, Kolobrzeg, Poland Selected one person exhibitions 2006 Robert Reed Gallery, Denver, CO 2004 Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2000 Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1998 Gallery at the Polonia International House, Krakow, Poland 1995 Galerie Aue, Berlin, Germany 1994 Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1990 Randall Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 1989 Evanston Art Center, Chicago, IL 1988 Gallery PRO ART, St. Louis, MO 1987 Franklin Gallery, Richmond, VA 1984 Herron Museum Gallery, Indianapolis, IN 1983 Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1983 Galerie Wildeshausen, Wildeshausen, Germany Selected recent commissions 2016 2 bicycle themed public sculptures for City of Kolobrzeg, Poland; Biomass Claude Monet for Sculpture Park, Etretat, France; 2015 Tree Hugger Project- The Line @ City Hall, Slupsk, Poland; 2014 THP- 4 fig. install, commis. Art Curator Gallery, Moscow, Russia; 2013 THP- installation at the UN Climate Summit, Warsaw, Poland; 2012 "Two Whales"- I 1 and 17 in long, Corten steel, Rewal, Poland. THP- "The Line to the Last Tree" and Three Forest Fairies as part of "Forest Art Festival", Darmstadt, Germany; 2011 "Intermission"- first of four Musical Chairs, Corten steel, commission for Regional Culture Center, Kolobrzeg, Poland; 2010 "Dancing Goddesses" Stainless steel install., Kolobrzeg; Poland; THP- 2 figures installation @ Shaw &Vandeventer, St. Louis, MO; 2009 Two THP install. @UN Climate Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark; "Homage to Marc Chagall" Tree Hugger Project at Pratt Institute Sculpture Garden, New York, NY, with A. Gradzik 2008 "Lonely Tree -Lonely People" Tree Hugger Project at UN Climate Conference, Poznan, Poland, with A. Gradzik; 2007 "At Long Last I Got To Like Meself The Way I Am", Welded stainless steel commission, Novol Corp., Poznan, Poland; 2006 My Home, My Castle, My Prison, Memorial Park, Jeff. City, MO; Tree Hugger Project with Agnieszka Gradzik at The Center for Contemp. Art, Palac Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland; 2005 Sculpture Trail, Hebden Bridge, England, sculpture installation "All's Well that Ends Well- To the Rescue of a Fallen Angel"; NCAA, Indianapolis, 2 winning designs for stainless steel Sculptures on diversity in academic sports; 2003 John Larsen & Associates, St. Louis, MO "Big Business Politician & The Little Man" a trailer mounted fountain sculpture in welded stainless steel travelling around USA Experimental Theater 2013 Street performance at the UN Climate Summit, Warsaw, Poland; 1987 Performance at the Holocaust Memorial Service, St. Louis, MO; 1983 Street performance "For Freedom" to commemorate the death of Jan Palach, Craft Alliance Gallery, University City, MO 1978- 1980 Director and producer, Experimental theater of Miracle Plays, Kolobrzeg and Koszalin, Poland. Selected collections Les Jardins d'Etretat, Etretat, France Pratt Institute Sculpture Garden, New York City, NY; ArtCurator Gallery- Marina Lebied Collection, Moscow, Russia; Joseph Pulitzer, IV, Big Horn, WY The Pulitzer Publishing, St. Louis, MO, Internationale Waldkunst Verein, Darmstadt, Germany Museum of Central Pomorze, Koszalin, Poland, Dr Adam and Dianne Bedkowski, Denver, CO Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg, St. Louis, MO, Randall and Anne Lipton, St. Louis, MO John and Anabeth Weil, St. Louis, MO Washington University Med. School, St. Louis, MO D.G.B. Bundesschule, Bad Kreutznach, Germany, Bramante Corp., Kitchener, Canada Novol Corporation, Poznan, Poland. Troton Corporation, Zabrowo, Poland, Dr. Piotr and Ewa Dyk, St. Louis, MO The Ralston Purina Co., St. Louis, MO, Edward and Kerry Ribbbeck, Lake Charles, LA S. Wesley Fordyce, St. Louis, MO Dr. Ronald Schmidt, St. Louis, MO, Claudine and Andreas Conradi, Berlin, Germany, Boguslaw Sonik, Krakow, Poland Jan and Bozena Wolejszo, Kolobrzeg, Poland, John and Marjorie Larsen, St. Louis, MO, Connie and Jordan Heimann, St. Louis, MO, Beverly Barron, Clayton, MO, Julie Heifetz, St. Louis, MO, St. Mary's College, Orchard Lake, MI, The Archdiocese of St. Louis, MO, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, Norbert Neuss, Indianapolis, IN, Martha Slaughter, Chicago, IL, Dr. William and Horthy Shieber, St. Louis, MO, Hartmut Berlinicke, Wildeshausen, Germany, Ulrich Wilke Collection, Hude, Germany, AS r 11 I Ww tnt P / t� F� Lam v Af I j _ r