When a shopping mall closes, what becomes of the art inside?
at his home and studio in Greenwich, Conn. “Monad” resembles a giant propeller blade and is emblematic of his fascination with wind. He started sailing as a boy and for a while, he and his wife,, the retail innovator who scattered art throughout his shopping malls, including Lakeforest.
“He actually commissioned these works and selected each work based upon models built for those spaces,” Perless said. “Nothing about the work that went there is arbitrary at all. Of course, he believed art should be incorporated into a daily experience, such as shopping and enjoying yourself. You shouldn’t have to go a museum to experience a work of art. And he thought that would be a good basis for putting this art work into his malls.
, “I used to get razzed about being the ‘king of shopping-mall sculpture,' as if that wasn’t something a real artist should be doing. But it’s the right approach. It’s very democratic. Art is for people, and if the people are at shopping malls, that’s where the art should be. Art shouldn’t be something kept in museums and segregated from daily life.”But retail tastes have changed and so has daily life. Enclosed shopping malls seem like old-fashioned relics.
“Monad” was a transitional piece for Perless, as he moved from stationary sculptures to the kinetic works he makes now. “It’s a piece that I feel passionate about,” he told me. “I don’t want it to wind up in a trash heap.”
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