60 Minute Man (architecture)

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Sixty Minute Man, 2000

Sixty Minute Man, Casagrande & Rintala, 2000

60 Minute Man is an architectonic installation by Finnish architects Casagrande & Rintala for the Venice Biennale 2000. In the work Casagrande & Rintala had planted an oak forest into an abandoned barge on top of 60 minutes worth of biologically cleaned and composted human waste from the city of Venice. ^[1]
New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp chose the 60 Minute Man his personal favourite of the biennale. ^[2]

[edit] Whitney's Floating Island

A similar work was realized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York 2005. The museum claims the work to be a realization of sketches of Robert Smithson done three years before he died in a plane crash in 1973. ^[3]

[edit] References

^ [1] - Adam Mornament: When Attitude Becomes Form Contemporary -magazine 2003
^ [2] - New York Times 2000
^ [3] - Randy Kennedy: It's Not Easy Making Art That Floats New York Times September 16, 2005