Presenter:
This year, Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell’s sculpture Concrete Traffic (1970) returns to the University of Chicago campus after a four-year conservation study. Christine Mehring (Professor, Art History) and Lisa Zaher (UChicago Arts Conservation Research Fellow) discuss the material challenges and aesthetic decisions that guided the conservation of this monumental public sculpture consisting of a 1957 Cadillac covered in concrete. This talk will take place in the presence of the sculpture in its new location, the Ellis Parking Garage. For related Concrete Traffic events this year, visit arts.uchicago.edu/concrete-happenings.