Toilet Tourism makes art VERY accessible!
When you gotta go, you gotta go!
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Hundertwasser’s is the most photographed toilet in the world
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Luckily I was already on the other side of the world when I realized this toilet was not too far off the road to our destination. We spent some time admiring this wonder and the other impacts, Hundertwasser had on this small town, Kawakawa, in New Zealand.
This bathroom experience was like visiting Hundertwasser’s playground! The colorful tiles and bottles integrated into the walls, the metalwork, and the creativity filling this space will definitely make your stop memorable. It made me wonder whether other artists have designed bathrooms as well. Here’s what I found!
Town of Minturn, CO Public Restrooms
“Our public restrooms prove how great it is to combine art, architecture, and creativity. It changes moods, places, and people,” said Janet Hawkinson, director of design and construction for the public restroom project.
Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens was voted America’s Best Restroom
Visitors have been so intrigued with the idea that they have been coming specifically to visit the restrooms, and Longwood Gardens’ green wall now has its own set of docents!
Maurizio Cattelan, America, 2016, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA.
The artist Maurizio Cattelan has created a solid-gold toilet for a Guggenheim Museum restroom. And, yes, it is fully functional.
The toilet is an exact replica of the one that used to be there, but it looks a lot more powerful. What Cattelan seemed to like best was its democratic appeal. “Whatever you eat, a two-hundred-dollar lunch or a two-dollar hot dog, the results are the same, toilet-wise,” he said. (newyorker)
Say
Do you think DuChamp’s urinal played a role in the willingness of artists to consider toilets as a subject?
Name the artist that inspired these cans. (imgur)
Do
Read about Toilet Tourism
Read the Loo with a View: 10 Public Bathrooms That Are Works of Art
Design a Public restroom that you would like to visit.
Put something surprising in a powder room that will delight your guests.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000)
Painter, architecture doctor, ecological activist, and philosopher
The work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser (born Friedrich Stowasser in Vienna) is one of the most important contributions to the art history of post-war modernism. As an important member of the international avant-garde in Paris in the 1950s, he developed his unique visual language. One of the central motifs of his colorful picture world is the spiral. (read on)
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