Küba is commissioned and produced by Artangel who have, since the early 1990s been working with some of the world’s leading artists. Every Artangel project is a new commission — an opportunity for an artist to realise a project which might otherwise never happen. Although opportunities for artists have grown exponentially with the global explosion of museums, festivals and biennales over the past two decades, these contexts are often very similar. Artangel works with artists on singular projects which need a different kind of commitment. How do artists develop their projects with Artangel? The simple answer is that there is no single way. The process can be very private or very public. It can develop with a small team of people or a sizeable number — but it always involves a close collaboration which often extends over years until the project is ready to go public. Commissioned artists have transformed places as varied as a vacant department store on Oxford Street, a ‘ghost’ village on Salisbury Plain, a Victorian terraced house in the East End of London, a Georgian Gentlemen’s Club and a subterranean Sixties cinema in the West End, releasing the rich potential of a compelling idea taking root at a particular place and time. For further information please see www.artangel.org.uk Artangel is supported by Arts Council England London, The Company of Angels and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.   |
