“Fourteen Black” By Tofer Chin


The mosquito bites didn’t stop artist Tofer Chin from installing his latest show in Rio de Janeiro’s Parque Lage.

“Fourteen Black” as the Los Angeles native calls it, runs until April 30th 2011 as part of Rojo’s Nova project.

To address the project’s theme about the absence of light, Chin placed 14 tall, black triangles around the Patos Lagoon in the park, located in the Jardim Botanico neighborhood. The wooden, acrylic-coated “black stalagmites,” as he calls them, are meant to be “living and breathing souls, ghosts, spirits, voids, shadows.”

In contrast to the abundant, bright, green surroundings, they work to emphasize the existence of dark, shady areas in the park and play on the idea of light versus absorption of light.

Read the original blog post here on Cool Hunting.

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