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A city with no center, so they say

August 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

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ArtWranglers likes: “Convergence” by Jun Kanenko, 2004. San Jose is a city of a million people built around an airport. People shop and hang out in the suburbs. Sound familiar? So the good folk in city hall have to build an attractive city center. Sound familiar? But they’re not scared to buy museum quality art to put in the town square. Feels good…

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Footnote: Canberra has a wall piece by Jun Kaneko at the NGA which is exhibited as a bowl – an arcane observation we picked up thanks to BW.

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  • 1 Bad publicity: dead centre // Aug 22, 2007 at 3:43 am

    [...] ← A city with no center, so they say Contemporary pugilism [...]

  • 2 Centrophobia // Aug 23, 2007 at 10:30 am

    [...] I know we’ve been spoiled recently by the fantastic ceramic sculptures by Jun Kanenko in San Jose, but when we drive past this disfunctional signage for three months in a row (you can tell [...]

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