"Artist and architect MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY completes a sculptural aluminum installation, Pier 865, within an historic park in Knoxville, Tennessee. The work sits within an established green space near Knoxville's Old Town neighborhood, extending an invitation to step away from the street and move toward open air. Its position on a cast-in-place concrete pier gives visitors an elevated view across the park's foliage, and lends a shift in perspective that feels at once urban and pastoral."
"Marc Fornes and his studio THEVERYMANY worked with their familiar system of painted aluminum, assembling palm-sized strips into a lightweight structure in Knoxville, Tennessee. Each strip is pre-folded and coated in a gradient of greens, blues, and butter yellow to create a surface that aligns with the sky and the surrounding trees without slipping into literal mimicry. Up close, the texture of these assembled facets offers a tactile field of seams and curves, and the canopy's form shifts as visitors move through it."
Pier 865 occupies an historic park near Knoxville's Old Town neighborhood, perched on a cast-in-place concrete pier to provide an elevated view across the park's foliage. The canopy is built from palm-sized, pre-folded aluminum strips painted in gradients of greens, blues, and butter yellow, forming a lightweight, tactile surface of seams and curves. The structure stretches outward with a gentle rise into continuous benches, ledges, and subtle height changes that guide movement toward the canopy. Five slender supports unfold into three wings, creating sheltered outdoor spaces that merge urban outlooks with pastoral presence and shifting geometry from different viewpoints.
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