MGM MIRAGE Unveils $40 Million Fine Art Program at CityCenter
10 Março 2008 - 1:37PM
PR Newswire (US)
Ambitious Public Art Program To Feature Groundbreaking Works By
International Artists Including Maya Lin, Jenny Holzer and Nancy
Rubins LAS VEGAS, March 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MGM MIRAGE
(NYSE:MGM) is unveiling initial plans for CityCenter's $40 million
Fine Art Program. Opening in late 2009, CityCenter will feature
works by acclaimed artists including Maya Lin, Jenny Holzer, Nancy
Rubins, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Frank Stella, Henry
Moore and Richard Long, among others. Validating CityCenter's
status as a cultural destination of worldwide significance, the
CityCenter Fine Art Program will feature numerous sculptures and
fine art installations in both interior and exterior locations to
create a dynamic and enriching fine art collection. The program is
designed to become a benchmark for enlightened corporate
involvement with the arts on a global level and will be one of the
world's largest and most ambitious corporate art programs.
Additional pieces will be announced at a later date. "CityCenter
will be an international architectural achievement that integrates
the talents of world-renowned artists, architects and designers in
one development; it will be a landmark of global taste and style,"
said Terry Lanni, Chairman and CEO of MGM MIRAGE. "The CityCenter
Fine Art Program will be the first initiative of its kind to merge
public and corporate interests on this grand scale, and we're proud
to deliver this prominent force in contemporary art and culture to
Las Vegas." The CityCenter Fine Art Program will encompass a
multitude of styles and media -- ranging from sculptures and
paintings to large-scale installations -- engaging visitors on both
a visual and intellectual level. Some will be existing pieces,
carefully chosen for their artistic value and cultural
significance; others will be site-specific installations for which
the artist has been invited to command their vision over the space.
The contemporary masterpieces will transform CityCenter into a
living, breathing museum of iconic works of art. The collection
will be enjoyed throughout CityCenter's public spaces from the
gaming resort, hotel and residential towers to its spectacular
retail and entertainment district. Each piece has been selected
specifically for the space in which it resides, evoking the
personality of its surroundings. The artwork has been paired with
CityCenter's unique architecture to create a sensory journey that
present the works in a never-before-seen fashion. "This venture
marks the only corporate collection ever to join such a multitude
of media, styles and artists and make it accessible in such a
highly visible and public manner," said Michele C. Quinn,
curatorial advisor for the CityCenter Fine Art Program. "Delivering
this caliber of artwork demonstrates the ambition of MGM MIRAGE to
create a cultural centerpiece for Las Vegas." CityCenter will
feature prominent works from some of the world's most influential
artists: -- Maya Lin -- For CityCenter's gaming resort, New
York-based Maya Lin is creating her first work of art in Las Vegas:
an approximately 120-foot silver cast of the Colorado River that
will be suspended high above the reception area. Lin is using
reclaimed silver to develop her creation in the spirit of
CityCenter's commitment to sustainability and in light of Nevada's
standing as the "Silver State." As both artist and architect, Lin's
work reflects a strong interest in the environment, a commitment
she also has served as an advisor on sustainable energy use, and as
a board member of the National Resources Defense Council.
Considered to be one of the most important public artists of the
century, Lin, whose highly acclaimed body of work includes the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., also has become a
celebrated architect. Her life and work were detailed in the
Academy Award-winning documentary, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.
-- Jenny Holzer -- Artist Jenny Holzer made her mark in 1976 with
her first public work, Truisms, which made profound statements in
the form of anonymous broadsheets pasted on buildings, walls and
fences in and around Manhattan. Her text later took the forms of
posters, monumental and electronic signs, billboards, television
and her signature medium: LED signs. At CityCenter, Holzer's work
will make a stirring impact. As guests approach the porte cochere
at The Harmon Hotel, Spa & Residences, they will be welcomed by
one of the artist's insightful LED signs spanning 387 feet wide.
Most recently, Holzer's work has been seen in Washington D.C. with
her collection, "For the Capitol," which incorporates nighttime
projections of quotes by presidents John F. Kennedy and Theodore
Roosevelt about the role of art and culture in American society. --
Nancy Rubins -- A sculptor and artisan famous for her grandiose
works created from salvaged and industrial consumer goods, Nancy
Rubins will create one of the most visually stunning commissions at
CityCenter with a larger scale version of her famous installation:
Big Pleasure Point. Measuring 40 feet tall, 50 feet wide and 70
feet long, Rubins' work of art at CityCenter will be a colorful
composition of numerous rowboats, kayaks, canoes, small sailboats,
surfboards, wind-surf boards, jet skis, paddle boats, catamarans
and other small river and ocean vessels that are finessed into a
gravity-defying form that is both delicately balanced and precisely
engineered. Rubins maintains the look, shape, and feel of her
chosen objects, so each craft showcased in the piece will be
exactly as originally found. The commission will be located on the
exterior of Vdara Condo Hotel and will be one of Rubins' few works
with a permanent home. Rubins has designed amazing works of art
from mattresses, trailers, hot water heaters, airplanes and small
appliances since the 1970s. For more than 25 years, Rubins has
exhibited extensively around the world in major solo and group
exhibitions. -- Richard Long -- Veer Towers will feature two
large-scale commissioned works by Richard Long. Entitled Circle of
Life and Earth, Long's two mud wall drawings will measure 80 feet
high x 50 feet wide each and be displayed on Veer's west and east
tower walls, respectively. An English sculptor, photographer and
painter, Long is one of the best-known British land and conceptual
artists. His art showcases his appreciation for nature and the
majority of his works are inspired by natural landscapes he has
encountered while hiking. During his walks, Long often creates
sculptures using natural materials in the environment such as
leaves, twigs and stones, and then photographs the end result to
forever capture his work. Long is the only artist to be
short-listed for the Turner Prize four times. He was nominated in
1984, 1987 and 1988, and won the award in 1989 for White Water
Line. -- Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen -- Mandarin
Oriental, Las Vegas will feature Typewriter Eraser, Scale X,
1998-1999, an iconic piece by Oldenburg and van Bruggen. Designed
with the pair's classic approach to creating large-scale outdoor
sculptures of popular commercial objects, the five-ton, 19-foot
stainless steel and fiberglass sculpture depicts a giant blue and
red typewriter eraser with the bristles of the brush turned upward
in a graceful, dynamic gesture. Scale X is the largest of three
sculptures created of the form, beginning in the 1970s. Oldenburg
and van Bruggen have collaborated on more than 40 monumental
projects throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Their most
recent work is the 144-foot-long, 64-foot-high Cupid's Span for
Rincon Park on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. -- Frank Stella --
For the reception desk at CityCenter's Vdara Condo Hotel, MGM
MIRAGE has purchased one of artist Frank Stella's most prominent
works. Damascus Gate I, originally created in 1969, features a
design of interlaced semicircles made of fluorescent and alkyd
resin on a 96 x 384 inch canvas affixed to a horizontal base.
Recognized for more than 45 years for his contributions to the
forms of Abstract Expressionism, sculpture and the concept of the
shaped canvas, Stella's work has been the subject of several
retrospectives in the United States, Europe and Japan. In 1970, The
Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a retrospective of
Stella's work. An authority and critic in his own right, Stella
presided over the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard
University from 1983-1984, which were published by Harvard
University Press in 1986. -- Henry Moore -- Within CityCenter's
gaming resort, guests will find Reclining Connected Forms,
1969-1974, a sculpture by Henry Moore inspired by the fundamentals
of the human experience -- the primary theme of his life's work.
Measuring 10.17 x 17 x 7.70 feet, the abstract work of art displays
a baby wrapped in its mother's embrace. The graceful outer shell of
the sculpture depicts the changing shape of a pregnant figure as it
protects the new life growing within. Moore's work was
traditionally inspired by the human body, organic shapes found in
nature and the sculpture of ancient and exotic cultures such as
Egypt, Sumeria, Africa and pre-Columbian Mexico. Surrealism, the
modern European art and literary movement with a tendency toward
abstract forms, also was a major influence. CityCenter, a joint
venture of MGM MIRAGE and Dubai World, will be a dazzling vertical
city that opens in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip between
Bellagio and Monte Carlo resorts in late 2009. The more than $8
billion development combines approximately 2,650 private
residences; two 400-room non-gaming boutique hotels; a dramatic
61-story, 4,000-room resort casino; and a 500,000-square-foot
retail and entertainment district into a single urban core.
CityCenter is a design collaboration between MGM MIRAGE and eight
of the world's foremost architects including Foster + Partners,
Gensler, Helmut Jahn, Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, Pelli Clarke
Pelli, Rockwell Group, RV Architecture LLC led by Rafael Vinoly and
Studio Daniel Libeskind*. * Consultant to AAI Architects, Inc.
About MGM MIRAGE MGM MIRAGE (NYSE:MGM), one of the world's leading
and most respected development companies with significant holdings
in gaming, hospitality and entertainment, owns and operates 17
properties located in Nevada, Mississippi and Michigan, and has 50%
investments in four other properties in Nevada, New Jersey,
Illinois and Macau. MGM MIRAGE is developing major casino and
non-casino resorts, separately and with partners in Las Vegas,
Atlantic City, the People's Republic of China and Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
MGM MIRAGE supports responsible gaming and has implemented the
American Gaming Association's Code of Conduct for Responsible
Gaming at its properties. MGM MIRAGE has received numerous awards
and recognitions for its industry-leading Diversity Initiative and
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