Enviroserv Christmas Tree

Enviroserv Christmas Tree — Ten-metre temporary scrap-assemblage Christmas tree at Cresta Shopping Centre, 2009
Kurt Lossgott, Enviroserv Christmas Tree, 2009. Mixed scrap (plastic bottles, broken chairs, bumpers, headlights) + 8000 solar-powered blue LEDs. 10 m high. Temporary installation, Cresta Shopping Centre, Johannesburg (7 months).
Year
2009
Medium
Mixed scrap (plastic bottles, broken chairs, bumpers, headlights) + 8000 solar-powered blue LEDs
Dimensions
10 m high
Series
Public Commissions
Provenance
Temporary installation, Cresta Shopping Centre, Johannesburg (7 months)
Photography
Rupert de Beer

A ten-metre-high temporary construction at Cresta Shopping Centre, the Enviroserv Christmas Tree stood for seven months in 2009. Built from plastic bottles, broken chairs, bumpers, headlights and eight thousand solar-powered blue LED lights, it closes the late-career arc back to Kurt's earliest welded-metal years — scrap, reused, lit from within.

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