Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse is transforming the landscape one of Philadelphia’s major transportation routes with a series of seven, vibrantly-colored installations along the city’s rail gateway, visible primarily to passengers aboard passing trains. ‘Psychylustro’ utilizes grosse’s unique spray-paint technique to spread intense color across the chosen project sites, unfolding throughout the dynamic course and covering abandoned warehouse walls, small buildings and stretches of green spaces in bold hues. Framed through the windows of the moving train, the large-scale public artwork generates a real-time landscape painting that explores shifting scale, perspective and the passage of time.
Presented by the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, the ephemeral and constantly changing installation will transform over time and — with nearly 34,000 daily viewers on the railway — will be a portal for new audiences to experience contemporary art, transforming a routine train journey into a voyage of the imagination. ‘We really want people to see what we see,’ describes jane golden, mural arts executive director. ‘we see the deterioration, but we also see the beauty, we see the history, we see philadelphia’s past.’ Mural arts has now released a map of the project sites, available here.
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