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Urban Landscape Group’s ’Living Art’ received 1st prize on Hungarian Universitas Program competition for a new outdoor plastic art installation at the University of West Hungary, Sopron. The Hungarian Universitas Program represents the broadest and most extent infrastructural development in higher education between 2005 and 2008 with investments of 44 billion forints per year in average. Within the framework of the program investors guarantee to spend 1% of their investment on purchasing contemporary artworks.



The Urban Landscape Group (Városi Tájkép Csoport in Hungarian, lead by industrial art designers Barbara Szöllőssy and Zsolt Pyka) was awarded first prize on the Program's outdoor plastic art tender out of their 17 fellow contestants. The Art Jury described the designer team's project as an artwork novelty closing a yet unfilled gap in contemporary art. The last work of the well-known designer duet will be realized in the campus garden of the University of West Hungary (Nyugat-Magyarországi Egyetem, NyME) in Sopron.

'Living Art' is installation. 'Living Art' is street furniture. 'Living Art' is half a statue, half an ever changing living garden.
Regarding the style of the planned new building, designers meant to create a special street furniture set which will ginger up the space used by students. The composition will be brought alive by dormitory students thus assigning the object and the surrounding park with an ever changing image.

The statue-plants, representing the initials of the University, will turn into a living spectacle by changing colors with the seasons day after day. Elements of the furniture set - which is made of concrete 'ribbons' - will cast shadow from the shady statue-plants as many vivid negatives. The special outdoor set will serve as a place to hang around and relax for those who long for a place to read, study or chat. As a result, 'Living Art' will undress all the passive traits of plastics and becomes a truly organic part of the garden.

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