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NAM JUNE PAIK
Video Arch


MICHAEL DAVIS, ANN PRESTON & RICHARD TURNER
Anamorph

Honda Center
Anaheim, CA
1995

 

Honda Center, originally named Arrowhead Pond at Anaheim, is a 16,000 seat multi-purpose arena, built by the City of Anaheim. A public art program was devised to place thoughtful and exciting art within the context of the dynamic spectacles programmed for the arena.


Client: City of Anaheim

 

View fullsize One of a only a few public commissions for Nam June Paik,  Video Arch  responds to the architecture of the facility in its use of the arch.  Each of the two sides of the arch are filled with 53 monitors, displaying an ever-changing ra
View fullsize Situated in the most prominent corner on the outside of the Honda Center,  Anamorph  by the team of Michael Davis, Ann Preston and Richard Turner, invites viewers into the spectacle of seeing.  Anatomically distorted figures in t
View fullsize The mirror column shows the "correcting" effect of the distorted image.
View fullsize The distorted image is rendered in mosaic in the basin of the sculpture.  The image is derived by that of athletes as found in Greek vases.  The reliance on Greek imagery was used as a connection to the original arena.

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