page 4 of 7 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Atelier van Lieshout The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1998 mixed-media installation How did Atelier van Lieshout make The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? First the artist talked with the staff of the Walker Art Center. The Walker staff told him the structure would be in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and that it should have a space for kids to do hands-on activities. Like many artists, van Lieshout began by making drawings and sketches for his creation. He next built a small model of the sculpture and sent it to the Walker Art Center where people could look at it and write comments about it. Click here to view a video or read the text of Joep van Lieshout (video requires Quicktime). Van Lieshout considered those comments in deciding how the final design would look. After more visits to Minneapolis to get ideas, he returned to Rotterdam to build the mobile unit. It traveled by truck, then by boat over the Atlantic, and then by truck to the Walker in Minneapolis. The wooden house was built in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden according to van Lieshout's drawings. It took him and a crew of workers more than a month to build it.
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