Art@Site www.artatsite.com Lita Albuquerque Site. Memory. Reflection
Artist:

Lita Albuquerque

Title:

Site. Memory. Reflection

Year:
1993
Adress:
CBD-Financial Core
Website:
Coping with size
American cities such as Los Angeles, can cope well with large format artworks. Memory Reflection by Lita Albuquergue first appears to be a little star, than becomes a thin line that gradually turns into a fountain and a gold sphere that seems to rise to the sky.

Compared with other artworks
Marwari Horse at Water by Nic Fiddian-Green (London, picture 1, more information) is a masterpiece that is realistic yet is poetic and aesthetic. It remains subtle even with it's large size. With this piece, the lawn is transformed into a poetic space. It will be wonderful to be together in the vicinity of this beauty.

This miracle of art David by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Venice, picture 2, more information) retains its beauty, power and magic in every format it would have been implemented.

The large scale of this artwork Spider by Louise Bourgeois (New York, picture 3, more information), is one of the reasons of it’s impact. When this artwork would have a small scale, the impact would be less. The meaning of the artwork is needed to have impact if it would have a small scale.

This artwork Torri di Luciana by Mauro Staccioli (Florence, picture 4, more information) seems to be able to carry the entire area and be able to place this on the earth. In a smaller size, the effect would be partially lost.
By Theo, www.artatsite.com
www.crala.net:
Site/Memory/Reflection consists of six elements. Between the Central Libray and 550 S. Hope St. are bronze startbursts on the street. From a street level sidewalk, a line of blue glass leads up the middle of a staircase and into a plaza. On the plaza at the end of the blue glass line is a tall polished black granite, rectangular in shape and monolithic in size. On the front face of the granite is a gold sun disk medallion. Blue neon lighting at the back of the monolith subtly connects the blue glass line that trails to the bottom of the stairs. The north end of the plaza has a stepped pyramidal sculpture. At the opposite end of the plaza is a stainless steel fountain whose shape mirrors that of the stepped pyramid. The other feature is the Memorialization Room and Walkway, which is underneath the flight of stairs leading to the black granite monolith. The Memorialization Room is painted in a soft cream shade, and overhead a gold leaf domed ceiling glows in the softly lit room. Directly beneath the dome and etched onto the floor is a polished black granite circle with a photo emulsion of the Earth. The doors to the room are bronze and are sculpted with patterns of numbers and letters. Leading back to the Memorialization Room is a polished black granite walkway with inlaid rectangles of bronze. From 1915 to 1985 the Church of the Open Hand stood at this site. A video on display in the Memorialization Room highlights this history of the site, the church and churches in Downtown in general."