Barrage Circles - News Location - Cardiff Bay, Wales.
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This Anamorphous Street Art was in the News & reported on BBC TV. Called Three Ellipses or Barrage Circles you see only fragmented lines until viewed from just one location, then the title becomes apparent, located at the Barrage, Cardiff Bay, Wales
Waymark Code: WMPCEM
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/09/2015
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'Three Ellipses for Three Locks' also known as 'Barrage Circles' is by Felice Varini, and uses the Barrage structures and paint to create a collage that results in large yellow circles.
These circles are not immediately obvious and can only be viewed from one location.
The art highlights the many parts that are needed to make up the operational structure of the Barrage.
"'Three Ellipses' designed by the artist Felice Varini who is a Swiss and was nominated for the 2000/2001 Marcel Duchamp Prize, known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings of rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques. According to mathematics professor and art critic Joël Koskas, "A work of Varini is an anti-Mona Lisa.
Felice paints anamorphous Street art on architectural and urban spaces, such as buildings, walls and streets, or in this case lock gates. The paintings are characterized by one vantage point from which the viewer can see the complete painting (usually a simple geometric shape such as circle, square, line), while from other view points the viewer will see ‘broken’ fragmented shapes. Varini argues that the work exists as a whole - with its complete shape as well as the fragments. “My concern,” he says “is what happens outside the vantage point of view.” Text Source: (
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Cardiff Bay Barrage
Three Locks
Cardiff, Glamorgan Wales.
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