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Caterpillar
Doris C. Freedman Plaza

Corten steel

June 26 - September 22, 2003

at Doris C. Freedman Plaza
(60th Street and Fifth Avenue)

and Madison Square Park
(23rd Street and Madison Avenue)

In Wim Delvoye's Gothic, Divine merges with secular, past meets present, and ornament overcomes strict functionality. In his life-size replicas of Caterpillar excavators, Delvoye juxtaposes medieval craftsmanship with machine-age technology. These massive sculptures are made in corten steel and perforated with Gothic filigree, transforming familiar icons of productivity into ornate, non-utilitarian objects. Caterpillar will be on view at Doris C. Freedman Plaza and, at Madison Square Park, a second Caterpillar sculpture will be on view as part of Chantier, a full construction site of equally elegant Gothic equipment including Shovels, a wheelbarrow, barricades, traffic cones, and a concrete mixer.

Artist Bio
Wim Delvoye was born in 1965 in Wervik, Belgium and lives in Ghent. He has had solo exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Sperone Westwater, New York; Manchester Art Gallery, England; Musée de Art Contemporain de Lyon, France; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. He has participated in major international exhibitions including the 48th Venice Biennale (1999) and Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany (1992).

Sponsorship
Wim Delvoye's Gothic is organized in collaboration with the Madison Square Park Conservancy, and made possible through the cooperation and support of the City of New York / Parks & Recreation.

Locations
Doris C. Freedman Plaza is located at the southeast corner of Central Park, 60th Street and Fifth Avenue. Nearest subway: N, R to Fifth Avenue stop or 4, 5, 6 to 59th Street stop.

Madison Square Park is located between Madison and Fifth Avenues, between 23rd and 26th Streets. Nearest subway: N, R, V, and 6 trains to 23rd Street.