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My rattling kickoff Labyrinth - #63 at Embankment Tube

I bagged my rattling kickoff Labyrinth yesterday.

Labyrinth is the cite of the serial of 270 artworks which are beingness hung inwards every cloak-and-dagger station inwards London every bit a permanent fine art exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground.

The creative someone responsible for them is British creative someone too Turner prizewinner Mark Wallinger. His operate is oft noted for its social commentary.

I get together at that spot are alone 10 of them installed inwards stations too then far - all the same at that spot volition survive i inwards all 270 stations when the projection is complete.

I was at nowadays gripped past times a feeling that nosotros all direct maintain a chip of transpotter inwards us too I'll terminate upward searching them out inwards all the stations I see on a regular basis.  I'm rattling certain I won't give-up the ghost too then far every bit to discovery all 270 all the same I'm likewise rattling certain someone will.

I mean, let's human face upward it Scotland has its Munros (hills nether 3,000 feet) too London has the Underground organization instead.  Instead of bagging Munros, nosotros tin all larn our trainers on too sew too down escalators and stairs every bit inwards lodge to pocketbook a Labyrinth.

Next volition come upward the Guinness World Record for the fastest fourth dimension that it takes i someone to larn him or herself  photographed side past times side to all 270  Labyrinths.

Plus don't forget the Guide to the Labyrinths of London - a majority which is doubtless starting its means inwards the reason on 100 strange computers around London every bit I type!

Labyrinth - an Art on the Undergound project

The labyrinths are dark graphic designs on a white background.  A ruby cross marks the entrance.  The concept of the labyrinth relates to the notion that the Underground is a chip of a puzzle to navigate - people lose themselves inwards the underground.  However it's likewise almost the fact that many a Londoner holds the map of the underground system inwards his or her caput too never inwards the pocket.

There are other echoes of the Underground system:

• The graphic motifs are all round.  This is intended to survive reflective of the iconic roundel used inwards the sign for every subway station too the to too fro of the daily journeying to operate which is too then much role of people's everyday life inwards London.
• They're made of vitreous enamel which likewise echoes the diverse signs around the cloak-and-dagger system.  

Taken together it's rattling strange that the sign, when you lot meet one, looks every bit if it's hateful to survive there. I was walking into Embankment station when I suddenly realised I was walking correct past times one!

You tin reckon a celluloid almost Labyrinth below inwards which Mark Wallinger explains why too how he got involved amongst the project, how it evolved too how the 270 unlike designs operate too are made.


Art on the Underground - Video

More websites too articles almost this installation:

• Transport for London - Art on the Underground - Labyrinth past times Mark Wallinger 
• The Independent - Mark Wallinger, Labyrinth, London Underground Tube Stations, London
• The Telegraph - Mark Wallinger commissioned for largest e'er artwork on London Underground
• The Guardian - Mark Wallinger's Labyrinth for Art on the Underground - video

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