William LaChance将圣路易斯篮球场粉刷成“彩虹”地毯
William LaChance spruces up St Louis basketball courts with "tapestry of colour"

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艺术家William LaChance 在圣路易斯郊区的篮球场上设计了一幅巨大的壁画。

Artist William LaChance has created a giant mural across a series of basketball courts in a St Louis suburb.



在密苏里市Kinloch公园的三个相邻球场里，绘制着大胆的色彩图案。这里位于弗格森（Ferguson）地区附近，2014年这里发生骚乱，白人警察枪杀了一名黑人青少年。

The bold patterns are painted across three adjacent courts at the Missouri city's Kinloch Park, located close to the Ferguson area where riots broke out in 2014, following the shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer.



LaChance与非营利组织Project Backboard合作，旨在为该地区带来新活力，并鼓励各个社区通过运动聚集在一起。

LaChance partnered with non-profit organisation Project Backboard on the installation, with the aim to breathe new life into the area and encourage communities to come together through sport.



“密苏里州的Kinloch的地理位置优越，它具有一定的历史意义，”LaChance说，“但是经过多年的腐败管理，现在的发展并不顺利，所以我们希望这个项目能够为城市带来复苏的气息。”

他还将这个作品描述为“世上最大的艺术品”。

"Kinloch, Missouri, was a very good location because it is historically significant," said LaChance, "but after years of poverty and corruption, is now on the brink of becoming a ghost town, so we hope that this project leads to more revitalisation."
He also described the artwork as "the largest of its kind anywhere".



五幅油画上布满了五颜六色的几何形状，艺术家将这些油画并排放置，从而形成一幅巨大的图像。曲线和直线边缘的组合形成篮球场的标记，但并不与它们直接重合。

The colourful, geometric shapes are based on a set of five oil paintings, which the artist placed side by side to form a larger image. Combinations of curved and straight edges evoke the court markings, but do not coincide directly with them.


在William LaChance修整之前，Kinloch公园的篮球场将被淘汰/The Kinloch Park basketball courts were run down before William LaChance's overhaul

设计师在原有场地的白线上大胆涂上其他色彩，其中有蓝色、绿色、红色、黄色、棕色和灰色。

The lines are painted in white over the top of the bold background, which includes hues of blue, green, red, yellow, brown and grey.


艺术家在三个篮球场上进行大胆的绘画/The artist's bold mural was painted across all three courts

他说：“设计的主要目的是创造一个具有凝聚力的艺术作品，创造出色彩缤纷的地毯效果，而不是像舞台布景一样等待演员的到来。”

"The primary intent of the design was to create not so much a cohesive, pictorial composition as it was to create tapestry of colour fields, large enough to act as stage sets awaiting the players," he said.


篮球场上绘制白色的线条/Court markings were added on top as white lines

近年来，几个城市篮球场进行了丰富多彩的改造。在巴黎，夹在两栋建筑物之间的篮球场于2015年被Ill-Studio和Pigalle 改造，然后在今年初再用新的色彩进行了修整。

Several urban basketball courts have been given colourful makeovers in recent years. In Paris, a court sandwiched between two buildings was transformed by Ill-Studio and Pigalle in 2015, then overhauled again with new shades earlier this year.


五颜六色的图形与篮球场的白线相互融合，但并不影响/The colourful graphics are influenced by the shapes of the court markings, but don't coincide

布鲁克林的艺术家Kaws也于2016年11月在纽约市的两个篮球场上绘制了他的作品。

摄影：William LaChance

Brooklyn-based artist Kaws also painted his signature motifs across two basketball courts in New York City in November 2016.
Photography is by William LaChance.






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