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Development projects over 50,000 square feet to contribute on-site art that is equal in <br />value to at least one percent of the project’s construction valuation or, alternatively, pay <br />an equivalent in-lieu fee, which will be deposited in the Art in Public Places Fund. This <br />funding mechanism, along with allocation of Capital Improvement Project (CIP) Funds, <br />has allowed for the advancement of prior public art projects and developing projects. <br />For this particular project, the City Council already approved CIP funding in FY 2016-17, <br />prior to the approval of the Art in Public Places ordinance. <br /> <br />A new public art project was presented to the Public Art Task Force and to the Civic <br />Cultural Commission to acquire a work of art created by Emilia and Ilya Kabakov who <br />wanted to redesign their successful “Pirate Ship” interactive sculpture from a Fung <br />Collaboratives exhibition titled “Artlantic.” <br /> <br />The City and Fung Collaboratives have worked on past projects, and as a result, had <br />the connection to present this unique opportunity to acquire a public art piece that would <br />be used by children and adults alike in our community. <br /> <br />ANALYSIS <br />Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are Russian-born, American-based artists who collaborate on <br />environments which fuse elements of the everyday with those of the conceptual. While <br />their work is deeply rooted in the Soviet social and cultural context in which the <br />Kabakovs came of age, their work still attains a universal significance. <br />Their work has been shown in such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, the <br />Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, <br />Documenta IX, at the Whitney Biennial in 1997 and the State Hermitage Museum in St. <br />Petersburg among others. In 1993 they represented Russia at the 45th Venice Biennale <br />with their installation The Red Pavilion. The Kabakovs have also completed many <br />important public commissions throughout Europe and have received a number of <br />honors and awards, including the Oscar Kokoschka Preis, Vienna in 2002 and the <br />Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Paris in 1995. They have recently been selected as <br />the artists for the 2013 annual Monumenta installation at Paris’s Grand Palais. Pirate <br />Ship is a work in progress and the artists have viewed the first temporary iteration as a <br />large-scale model which they desire to transform into a completed artwork and park <br />situation. This would be the only permanent public artwork by the Kabakovs in the <br />United States. <br />In 2012, the Kabakovs were commissioned to build a large sculpture to be placed in a <br />temporary art park in Atlantic City, called “Artlantic.” They built a partially sunken pirate <br />ship which was enjoyed by children and adults alike. Photos of the “Pirate Ship” are <br />attached in this report (Attachment A). The City became aware of the opportunity to <br />acquire this piece of art through the initial design work that was initiated by the Parks, <br />Recreation and Community Services (PRCS) Department for the installation of a <br />playground adjacent to the Redwood Shores Library. Over the past three years, the <br />Library Director, the Library Board, the PRCS Commission, and the PRCS Department <br />have been sharing ideas related to a new play space at the Redwood Shores Library. <br />6.1.F. - Page 2