If you find yourself strolling around the town of Margate in Kent, UK, you’ll stumble upon one of the more impressive contemporary outdoor works we’ve seen in a while. In collaboration with British construction workers and industrial manufactures, artist Alex Chinneck found an abandoned, dilapidated house and placed a brick façade that appears to be slipping down the entire frame with the bricks, windows, and front door bowing in unanimity.
While conceptually light, the physicality of the work is colossal.
Titled from the knees of my nose to the belly of my toes (2013), his rad land art shakes viewers out of their sedated gaze with its sheer massiveness and peculiarity in form. The slipping façade resembles a skateboard half pipe and evokes a sense of momentary wonderment that would occur during a spell in a Harry Potter novel. While conceptually light—Chinneck notes that simply wanted to “surprise” his audience—the physicality of the work is colossal. All of Chinneck’s creations have a sense of laser precision and conceptual lightless juxtaposed with monumentality and defiled logic in form. Peg us a whimsical, but like his fallen façade, we’ve fallen hard for Chinneck’s work.
