The Magenta House

For the occasion of their fifth anniversary the Milton Keynes Gallery commissioned artist Michael Craig Martin to design the facade in 2003. 

Artist:
Michael Craig Martin
Material: 
Lascaux Studio
Completed: 
2004
Location:
Milton Keynes, England

The facade painting transformed the building into a piece of art. This temporary art project was at that time considered the artist’s largest mural painting.


Like all public works of art it is exposed to changing light, space and time conditions, and appears in a colour spectrum reaching from sweet pink to rich velvet carmine red. The magenta-coloured reflections shine over the immediate vicinity and are mirrored by the glass facades of the neighbouring buildings.


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