Metro Art Highlights: Mark Lere’s “The Metro Machine” (2007), Division 9.
Stray and digress awhile at this artful array of visual anoesis. Artist Mark Lere lends a thaumaturgical touch to a widespread epoxy terrazzo artwork that’ll help run roughshod over any ramstuginous day.
The installation entails nine-hundred square feet of four color terrazzo containing aluminum strip inserts that serve a sensorium effect with a pell-mell of shapes, texts, and symbols.
There’s a weird wisdom wallowing in the artwork. The artist has wefted in images of cogs and gears of trains, buses, and bicycles all seamlessly sewn together and interconnected like the well-oiled apparatus that Metro is.
Lere enlightens, “This installation is based on the workings of the transit district and its job of working as a well-oiled machine.”