Shigeko Hirakawa

Public Art

or Art in Public Spaces

Artworks in Public Spaces such as School, University, City Hall, Concert Hall, Grounds, Railway Station, Urban Settings, Nature...


	Floating Island 1992 wood structures covered with copper sheets and epoxy vernished, inox cables, 2 sculptures of 4m x 1,5m suspended from the ceiling at 8,5m high 1% Architecture, Purchased by the Ile-de-France Regional Council, Van Gogh High-school, (Aubergenville, France)

	Two oval elements, resembling boat hulls, float upside-down under the ceiling, hung by cables, at 8,5 meters high. The sculpture is inspired by the architecture of the place, which echoes the architecture of an airport. It assumes, in this space, the role of a warming centre, thanks to the warm tonality of the copper shell that covers its woodden structure. Each element is 4 meters long. (Text from the catalogue "The 1% Art Projects in the Region of Ile-de-France, ART / HIGHSCHOOL, 1951 - 1993", Ile-de-France Regional Council)




	Five Red Spheres 1999 Element : 154cm in diameter Installation : 15m long Discolored cloth on wood, vernish Collection of the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo (Tokyo Komaba) Text



	Selected Artworks 1993 - 1998 Installation of 40 pieces in the City Hall. 16m x 8m x 15m high City Hall of Choisy-le-Roi, Solo Show in 1997 (Choisy-le-Roi, France) Text

	Dé-peindre 1996-97 Installation: 275cmH x 750cmL Element: 275cmH x 150cmL Discolored cloth by sunlight on wood

	Decoration for the concert "the Japanese Contemporary Music (Takemitsu, Ichiyanagi, Taira, Miyoshim Yoshida)" Maison de la Musique de Nanterre (Nanterre, France) December 6, 2002

	Connected Air 2003 & Domesticated Water 2003 4 spheres of 530cm, 200cm, 150cm high, crystal-clear PVC, wood, turbine, air, electricity, 8 elements of 180cm & 150cm diameter, water, crystal-clear PVC, fluorescein, wood The Château d'O Grounds Festival (Montpellier, France) May 2003

	Festival de l'Oh Riverbank of Choisy (Choisy-le-Roi, France) May 2006

	Domesticated Water 180cm and 150cm in diameter Installation: 18m long

	Family Tree/ Death 1997 Installation: 130m long Riverbank of Sylguy Triennale Mont-de-Marsan sculptures 1997 (Mont-de-Marsan, France)
	2m high Oak stumps

	Water Crater 2007 8m in diameter Museum Square Parcours Contemporain (Fontenay-le-Comte, France)

	Winged Trees 2006 9m-4m long wings The Chateau Grounds of Johay Poetic Spaces (Liège, Belgium)

	Molecule of Oxygen 2004 Installation: 25m long Art Omi International Artist Colony (Hudson new York)

	Untitled 1989 wood, 36m long Espace éclatés (Trith-Saint-Léger city, France)

	Untitled 1988 Installation of 20 elements from 2m to 3,6m long SNCF Railway Station of Rochefort (Rochefort, Fance)

	Gods' Slide 2006 66m long Installation: 30m high School Grounds Tecomah, Ecole de l'Environnement et du Cadre de vie Les Environnementales (Jouy-en-Josas, France)


	Tree of Photosynthesis 2006 1500 plastic discs, photochromic pigment The City Hall Grounds of Argenteuil Solo Show in 2006 (Argenteuil, France)



	Tree of Photosynthesis 2007 1341 plastic discs, photochromic pigment The King Manor Park Jamaica Flux 2007 (Jamaica, New York, U.S.A.)