Dear Editor,
Recently, Richmond City Hall announced the purchase of two pieces of art to add to the Minoru Development Project currently underway.
The cost of $350,000 has been openly challenged in the media along with providing negative views of the art itself.
Who was behind the selection of this art as it was obviously commissioned to two very different local artists?
City hall would be well advised to appoint an art expert to advise it on such matters. The space needle does not provide theme to the Minoru complex. It is a space needle and nothing more.
How original!
It would be more appropriately located at the entrance to a mega/monster home. This could start a new art trend.
The art creation that will go into the new swimming pool is harder to comprehend.
Who will see it ?
Having it suspended over the pool surface is a total waste of whatever art value it may have, as well as the purchase price of $100,000.
This reflects the total incompetence of city hall in this matter. The artist should step forward to oppose the location of their art.
In the meantime, the public must put pressure on city hall to rethink its decision. Art works must be put on display for all to see, swimmers, visitors and general public alike.
Locate the art work outside at the entrance to the pool, not inside where it will be rapidly degraded by the chlorine vapours that come from the pool water.
Alan Johnson
Richmond
