Description: Designed by architect Tadao Ando, Wrightwood 659 is a new non-commercial exhibition space in Chicago, IL, conceived for the presentation of exhibitions devoted to architecture and socially engaged art.
Organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington, DC, the site-specific installation will be on view from 9 May–7 July, 2018 at 659 W. Wrightwood Ave., in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.
Trace is a monumental work comprising nearly one million individual LEGO® bricks arranged to depict women and men from around the world whom the artist considers activists, prisoners of conscience, or advocates of free speech. The work was commissioned in 2014 by the nonprofit FOR-SITE Foundation , in partnership with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy , for an exhibition at Alcatraz, the former penitentiary in San Francisco, where it drew nearly one million visitors. In 2017, Trace made its institu
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