Echo, David Zimmer, 2019
SERVICES PROVIDED: Design coordination, Materials research, Budget management, Engineering coordination and oversight, Artist Selection process, Fabrication oversight, Lighting design development, Shipping, Installation services, Scheduling, Project close-out.
In 2017 we began working with our client to identify an art concept for the exterior wall of their new development at 16 Chestnut in Downtown Denver. The location selected for the artwork is a 40’ x 30’ portrait orientation wall on the Chestnut side of the building. After careful review of selected artists’ proposals Denver-based artist, David Zimmer was commissioned to create a technology-based work entitled Echo.
Zimmer’s installation Echo is an abstraction of a majestic tree moving in the wind. The image is broken up into 13 LED panels and reconstructed in a collage style throughout the space. The work evokes the feeling of being in nature, in contrast to its concrete and glass surroundings. The subject matter is three giant oak trees on the outskirts of Denver that Zimmer has been filming intermittently over the last 10 years. The name Echo is meant to evoke the memories that have taken place under and around the tree over the past many years.
Select images courtesy of the David Zimmer and Elmendorf Geurts. Digital renderings courtesy of Gensler.
