Site-specific art, is art that is created solely for that location. The artist creates the piece with the location in mind. Often the point of site-specific art is to create something that interacts with its surroundings, and really elevates the space that it is in. The idea of site-specific art is that if one were to remove the art from its location and move it elsewhere, it would lose its meaning. Artist Robert Irwin was one of the first artists to promote the term site-specific art. Some examples of art specific works are Condensation Cube by Hans Haacke, and The Gates by Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
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