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Title
Airplane Parts and Building, A Large Growth for San Diego: interior view
Creator
Rubins, Nancy (American sculptor, born 1952)
Contributor
InSITE94
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Sculpture and Installations
Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego a few years prior to 1994, the Museum presented, in conjunction with inSITE94, a new installation by Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Rubins at their downtown location. Titled "Airplane Parts and Building, A Large Growth for San Diego," the installation was built of discarded airplane parts that were arranged to rise from the floor of the interior space of the Museum and pierce through the building's south-facing windows to form a large hovering growth on the exterior. The dynamic arrangement of the elements made the pieces work together as one appearing frozen in time and their careful placement as a whole suggested a rapid movement as though whirled together by some unknown force. --inSITE94
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 05, Item 319)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Type
image
Format
Found objects; steel (alloy)
Form/Genre
installations (visual works)
sculpture (visual work)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb9218091t
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Junk sculpture
Salvage
Recycling
Aerospace industries
Installations (visual works)
Sculpture (visual work)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE94
Place
Mexican-American border region

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