120辆自行车墙／340辆自行车塔

120 Bikes on a Wall

A bicycle shop in Altlandsberg, Germany advertises their goods with a wall of around 120 bikes mounted on the building’s exterior in lieu of a sign. Pretty, but what do you think would happen if they tried it in New York?

Bicycle Tower Art

Cyclisk by Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector.

340 recycled bicycles were used to create this 65ft (19.8m) tall (five story) public art installation. Dubbed the Cyclisk, the 10,000lb (4,540kg) monolith, created by American artists Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector, was constructed in Santa Rosa, California as part of the communities’ art mandate.

With a budget of US$37,000 (€29,170), the Nissan-funded project serves to fulfil the city’s “1% for Art” requirement that dictates that a component of all large-scale construction projects donate a percentage to public art. The project also serves as an ode to the humble bicycle in an area of Santa Rosa filled with car dealerships.

Cyclisk by Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector.

“Made of recycled bicycle gears, rims, frames and hoops, [Cyclisk] will be a series of intersecting rhythms – a visual metaphor for the human experience – technology and the humanities – history and the future – individual and collective.  Evoking a ‘world of possibilities,’ it will be a work communicating to all walks of life – all ages, relevant for years to come....” explained their artists’ proposal.