BGuthrie Photos: CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Park -- Golden Gate Plaza (Zone of Public Gathering / Zone of Discovery / Zone of Transformation)

CA -- Sacramento -- Capitol Park -- Golden Gate Plaza (Zone of Public Gathering / Zone of Discovery / Zone of Transformation):

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CAPGGP_140719_006.JPG: Golden State 2003 Lita Albuquerque and Mitchell de Jarnett The Golden State comprises three zones, across 16th Street, is zone for public gathering. With an amphitheater and an etched granite conceptual map of the site. Two granite forms emit a water curtain framing the axial view of the capitol dome to the west. Here on 16th Street is Zone of Discovery. The sculpture which includes images California and its people, represent the stars as they were over Sacramento on September 9, 1850, when California became the 31st state. To the west is Zone of Transformation. The surfaces of the space when viewed from a precise position reveal an image of astronomer Edwin Hubbel looking through a telescope. The gold sphere, a replica of the one atop the capitol dome, ties the visitor to history, the present, the earth, and the cosmos. Additional information is available at 1501 Capitol Avenue.
2. CAPGGP_140719_065.JPG: Pavement surrounding the Capital Area East End Complex Used crumb rubber recycled from 11,000 California Tires in 2003. Funded by California Integrated Waste Management Board.
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Description of Subject Matter: When public art fails
By Rob Turner
Sactown Magazine
May 30, 2015 05:00 PM
Updated May 31, 2015 12:00 AM

In the weeks leading up to the Sacramento City Council vote in March to purchase an $8 million sculpture by Jeff Koons, the city was suddenly overflowing with armchair art critics.
So where were they all in 2003?
That was when the state of California constructed on Capitol Avenue the “East End Complex,” the state’s largest-ever office project, and one that has been widely criticized for its design and lack of urban context at this gateway between Capitol Park and the liveliest section of midtown.
But for all the project’s flaws, the government nobly set out to create a two-block-long plaza filled with the largest state-funded public art installation in California history.
Unfortunately, like the buildings surrounding it, the art installation is equally uninviting, and illustrates the consequences when art is neglected by caretakers who are not curators.
The site, by any definition, is a public art failure as epic as the state it purports to honor.
According to a government catalog devoted to the installation, the space in question is called the Golden State Plaza, and is divided into three sections.

The first, the “Zone of Public Gathering,” sits on Capitol Avenue between 16th and 17th streets. Its primary feature is two 25-foot-tall, L-shaped beams that were intended to “frame” the Capitol with dramatic “rain curtains” – aka falling water.
The problem, however, is that the “rain” apparently hasn’t fallen since 2003. According to the Department of General Services, which oversees state facilities, the rain curtain piece flooded the sidewalk and plaza upon its debut, and so has been dry for nearly all of its 12 years.

The second section is the “Zone of Discovery.” Here, an artist placed 55 steel sculptures, each topped with layers of glass discs meant to reveal “images and texts that recount a fragmentary history of gold.”
The first irony of t ...More...
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