Cecil Balmond’s Critically Acclaimed Sculpture Debuts in the UK
British designer, architect and artist Cecil Balmond‘s critically acclaimed sculpture H_Edge has it made its UK debut in London’s Spitalfields in a fascinating bespoke configuration in the reflecting pool opposite the Allen & Overy building (open until October 2014).
Originally debuting at the Artist Space in New York in 2006, this installation has brought wonderment and joy globally to such places as the Graham Foundation of Fine Art in Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Tokyo Opera City Gallery in Tokyo as well as in and Milan and recently at the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence, see the video below.
As well as H_Edge, Cecil Balmond has a number of forthcoming public art projects including commissions for the Chicago Transit Authority and MESA Art Center, Arizona and one of his recent sculptures, a light sculpture Snow Words (for the State of Alaska Arts Council) was named one of the best public artworks of 2013 by the Americans for the Arts, Public Art Network Year in Review.