RAW VISION
#31 - Summer 2000
USA: SCULPTURE AT DERELICT PITTSBURGH STEEL MILL
A 40 ft. Deer Head built at the Carrie Furnace, reflects the philosophy of art for art's sake. Kaulen says, sometimes your audience is just life itself... sometimes your motivation is just for the fact that you're here. Kaulen's conception of the work was as an autonomously evolving experience rather than a finite product. Few people will see the unsanctioned piece which has been erected by Kaulen and the Industrial Arts Co-operative in a derelict steel mill, in Rankin, Pittsburgh. It is accessible only across an area of overgrown wasteland, behind a security fence. At first the deer head seems like an incongruous presence in the midst of the overgrown mill, but its sensitively pricked ears and majestically poised head soon suggest that the observer is actually the alien presence.
The sculpture was made solely from materials found at the site - mesh made from metal tubing, heavy gauge wire, rusted pipes and woven rubber house.
2100 Mary Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
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