The other day I happened to find myself in a part of town I don’t normally frequent. Been there before of course, why I’ve never paid more attention to the public art on display is a mystery. The marble wall art ‘Marmorintarsia’ by Endre Nemes seen below is a masterpiece. It made me consider the big picture of pieces. The way small bits can combine to make large-scale impact never stops to amaze me.
‘Marmorintarsia‘ comprise of 60 kinds of marble from around the world and it took 7500 hrs to piece it all together. It was inaugurated in 1955 and is today listed in a publication pointing to public art as indicator of societal change.
I continued my stroll and around another corner came across the mosaic tiles designed in a colourful geometric pattern seen above. Not sure if this is an original feature but to me it matches the style of the area which was constructed in the early/mid-1950s. It’s striking in its simplicity.
In another part of town they have formed into one unit pieces of broken blue/white porcelain. Adorning a wall in a sort of sunken garden it forms the backdrop of a water feature. Great idea!
How may these public art designs be inspirational for an “ordinary” garden? Mosaic is nothing new anywhere, let your imagination run wild. Personally I find this wall comprising lava stone slabs from Nerosicilia quite outstanding.
