The Mural at the Max is a 28,000 square meter mural for a new luxury building located on 57th Street West in New York City. The creation of this artwork stems from the need to provide a beautiful view for approximately 100 residential units that face a blank wall.
With so many residents observing the wall, from their homes or from the garden yard and terrace, it was almost an obligation to create an artistic painted mural. The design features a futuristic rendering of a three-dimensional cloud-scape above New York City populated by winged creatures.
Several poems are hidden among the cybernetic clouds overlooking the skyscrapers and the skyline below. Karlssonwilker collaborated with the Poetry Society of New York to identify local poets from various neighborhoods in New York. Ten poets were commissioned to write poems of 25-40 words celebrating the neighborhood of New York, paying particular attention to its history, a close relationship, that between design and reality often found in projects of urban architecture.
Also, six public domain poems have been selected to be included in the mural. Each apartment with a view of the mural will receive its own binoculars, and there will also be a permanent telescope installed in the courtyard to aid in this discovery.
