Category: Make a Point
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Giants of Pantelimon. Chapter I
The first roof painted by Boemona as part of the Giants of Pantelimon community art project can now be seen from Art Tower of Pantelimon. For two months we walked around the neighborhood talking to the inhabitants, to discover which are the stories, places and buildings that are important to them. We also asked them…
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Giants of Pantelimon in 2017: a project of art and life at height
Three years after the opening of the Pantelimon Water and Art Tower, Make a Point is developing a new art project at its height. The neighborhood’s inhabitants tell their stories, the artists climb the rooftops, the public admire them from the tower. The life of the neighborhood, which is not written in any history book,…
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Water Tower Art Gallery
By their nature, water towers are obsolete, they belong to other times, of rapid industrialization. Today they are abandoned, sometimes useful for animals as shelter in bad weather, or as hiding places for lovers, like the bunkers in Albania. They become uncomfortable for new entrepreneurial plans, and are detonated more recently, sometimes very clumsy and…
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The Art Tower
The Water Tower of Pantelimon becomes The Art Tower Aug – Dec 2012 Sos. Morarilor nr. 1 Monday, the 20th of August 2012, Make a Point launched the Art Tower project. The water tower of the industrial site „Postavaria Romana”, situated on the same premises as Make a Point, will be transformed from an old…
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Make a Point admits.
That Bucharest is not an “European capital”. 228 square km, and only 1 km of those is culturally significant, situated in the tired, over saturated centre of the city. The rest, dormitory-neighborhoods and factories, built inside the city walls. You can find none of these in Berlin, Paris or London, where you can run around…