fridgehenge..................circa. 2003
so many inefficient old fridges in america that need replacing, so much empty space that could be filled with monuments..... we usually suggest recycling old fridges; artist adam jones horowitz and the primordial soup company had another idea fridgehenge, built in 2003 near santa fe, new mexico....... it was built out of more than one hundred fridges in the image of stonehenge and was a popular tourist attraction.... a lot of artists are working with garbage and recycling waste into art (check out stuart haygarth's bottled water chandelier, piet hein eek's scrap wood furniture, or an entire exhibition of it at the new museum of art and design in new york) but never on this scale..... 'officials from the city of santa fe, where the sculpture was, said that it was never supposed to be a permanent fixture and following a number of complaints from neighbors, it was removed..... 'it started out as a statement about american consumerism and waste, and then it sort of became waste itself '...... though surrounded by a chain-link fence, the many colored kenmores, whirlpools and maytags already show signs of passing visitors as they add their 'art' and graffiti to this monument to man's vapid consumer appetite..... rather than being aligned with the sun and the star fridgehenge is aligned with it's own atomic power source- los alamos national laboratories to the northwest..... these sprayed and decorated metal hulks are all lined up in a one hundred foot diameter circle where they seemingly worship several inner towers.... horowitz has been quoted as calling it 'a post-modern, post apocalyptic temple to waste and consumerism..... ok, i know this 'behemoth' of recycled scrap metal (minus the freon) was not erected in our beloved new england, but boy is this cool as hell........
so many inefficient old fridges in america that need replacing, so much empty space that could be filled with monuments..... we usually suggest recycling old fridges; artist adam jones horowitz and the primordial soup company had another idea fridgehenge, built in 2003 near santa fe, new mexico....... it was built out of more than one hundred fridges in the image of stonehenge and was a popular tourist attraction.... a lot of artists are working with garbage and recycling waste into art (check out stuart haygarth's bottled water chandelier, piet hein eek's scrap wood furniture, or an entire exhibition of it at the new museum of art and design in new york) but never on this scale..... 'officials from the city of santa fe, where the sculpture was, said that it was never supposed to be a permanent fixture and following a number of complaints from neighbors, it was removed..... 'it started out as a statement about american consumerism and waste, and then it sort of became waste itself '...... though surrounded by a chain-link fence, the many colored kenmores, whirlpools and maytags already show signs of passing visitors as they add their 'art' and graffiti to this monument to man's vapid consumer appetite..... rather than being aligned with the sun and the star fridgehenge is aligned with it's own atomic power source- los alamos national laboratories to the northwest..... these sprayed and decorated metal hulks are all lined up in a one hundred foot diameter circle where they seemingly worship several inner towers.... horowitz has been quoted as calling it 'a post-modern, post apocalyptic temple to waste and consumerism..... ok, i know this 'behemoth' of recycled scrap metal (minus the freon) was not erected in our beloved new england, but boy is this cool as hell........