“Jan Vormann, 26, has taken his project from its humble beginnings at an art fair in Rome and brightened up thousands of people’s days with his brightly coloured plastic version of Polyfilla. From the old quarter of Tel Aviv in Israel to the grand Bryant Park of New York, Mr Vormann has acted either independently or with the city’s permission to leave a little part of his childhood behind.
Estimating to have used upwards of 1,000 of the little Danish building blocks, Mr Vormann enlists the help of passers-by intrigued by his careful placing of the Lego bricks. “I like to think of my work as a Repair Manifesto,” said the Berlin-based installation artist. “My work draws attention to the smallest parts of our cities that are falling apart because of the brightness of the Lego. “It draws people’s attention through the coloured blocks and makes them aware that this wall or statue or construction is not complete anymore, for whatever reason. “In the case of my latest project in New York which I completed in early March, I simply wanted to help the Mayor Bloomberg brighten up the great city.”"
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Amazing what passes for art these days! The lack of real talent painfully clear
what a marvellously pretentious first comment, art needn’t require talent. Art is about the use of sense-based mediums to entertain and enlighten, im far from an artist, but i find such comments an offense to common sense and decency. Step down from your high horse fella
i meant that talent, when talking of art, is a very wide range of abilities, that was a bit badly worded.
now this is gonna REALLY piss off al-qaeda!
Arts for the open minded and i believe art is anything thats different. This is different… so, yes i believe this to be art…
if people considered something that you see everyday to be art, what would be the point?
Laws, can you not appreciate art upon every glance? I walk the same route to Uni every day and see the same buildings, the same trees etc, I still consider each as beautiful as the first day I saw them, the same applies to art I see regularly. In fact one building has a mosaic wall that I still find mesmerizing and I’ve seen it every day for 2 years or so.