PHOENIX
Volkan Alkanoglu
PROJECT PROFILE:
Artist: Volkan Alkanoglu
Design: VA | DESIGN
Title: Phoenix
Materials: Painted Aluminum
Fabrication + Installation: Demiurge
Structural Engineering: Nick Geurts
Location: Pleasant Hill, Iowa
Photography: A.J. Brown
Artist Statement:
Phoenix is an informal monolith that represents the upcoming and vital community of Pleasant Hill. The art work is a bold, colourful and iconic form/signifier with a central spine and populated with a series of custom aluminum branches extruding away from the center and creating an overall vertical dynamic form. Our concept is to create visual ambiguity and play with effects that are created by merging, blending, overlay, shadows and other visual parameters. With a series of individual and unique components, the artwork constantly appears in new light and transforms during the day. It is our goal that the art piece will offer a moment of thought and inspiration to its viewers and users while projection a contemporary and bright future for the Pleasant Hill community.