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photographs and pine wood

Parklife

October 9, 2002 -
September 15, 2003

MetroTech Center, Brooklyn

Public Art Fund and the Commons Associates are proud to present a new exhibition of contemporary art at MetroTech Center. Parklife continues MetroTech's commitment to supporting the work of emerging New York artists. Each year artists are asked to respond to the Commons, the public spaces surrounding the vibrant downtown areas of MetroTech Center and Brooklyn Polytechnic. The artists selected for this year's exhibition - Isidro Blasco, Liz Craft, Peter Gould, Elke Lehmann, and Franco Mondini-Ruiz - have each created new works that react to the area's landscaped surroundings.

For the Lobby at MetroTech One, Isidro Blasco transforms the notion of a "tree house" into a literal endeavor. Taking the shape of a tree as a basis, he has substituted the trunk, branches, and leaf canopy with pine wood palettes and photographs that depict several rooms in his apartment. Exploring the limits of everyday space, After the End disassembles the familiar and reconstitutes it as a baroque visual experience, one in dramatic contrast to the smooth marble walls and floors of MetroTech One. Spontaneous and vigorous, the lines of After the End sweep upward and around, creating multiple vistas and a cohesive composition.

Artist Bio
Spanish artist Isidro Blasco combines architecture, photography, and installation to explore themes of vision and perception in relation to physical experience. His past work has consisted of large scale sculptures that reference the realm of private or domestic space. Blasco often begins by selecting one angle in a room and then constructs a new space from the perspective of that particular vantage point, a fragmentation of a single line of sight that is reminiscent of cubist collages by Picasso, Braque and other early 20th-century painters. Blasco's three-dimensional sculpture results in an elliptical succession of multiple angles and produces a space that is at once recognizable and entirely new.

Sponsorship
Parklife at MetroTech Center is part of an ongoing program organized by the Public Art Fund and sponsored by MetroTech Commons Associates, an organization that consists of MetroTech companies Bear Stearns & Company, KeySpan Energy, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Forest City Ratner Companies, Polytechnic University, Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), DOITT and E-911. Special thanks to First New York Management.

Public Art Fund is a non-profit arts organization supported in part with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs and through generous contributions from corporations, foundations, and individuals.

Location
MetroTech Center is situated in the in the Civic Center/Borough Hall area of Downtown Brooklyn.
By Subway: M, N, or R to Lawrence Street Station or the A, C, or F to Jay Street/ Borough Hall, exit at Myrtle Promenade.