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cedar, nuts and bolts

MetroSpective

January 29 - November 8, 2003

City Hall Park

Public Art Fund and Forest City Ratner Companies is pleased to present an exhibition that brings contemporary art back to City Hall Park for the first time since 1992. MetroSpective celebrates ten years of Public Art Fund projects at MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn, revisiting six works that were first exhibited there. The retrospective at City Hall Park provides a new venue and audience for these seven artists: Art Domantay, Ken Landauer, Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz, Peter Rostovsky, Do-Ho Suh, and Brian Tolle.

From a distance, Picnic Tables appear to be like any two ordinary park picnic tables. Closer, they turn out to be super-sized versions of the original, faithfully rendered with appropriately sized nuts, bolts and long two-plank benches. Those that take a seat may find themselves recalling the long-forgotten childhood experience of clambering up unwieldy objects to sit with feet dangling off the ground. Their disarming scale is exaggerated by a disproportionate relationship between height and length, a trick of perspective that leaves one guessing almost until last minute.

Artist Bio
Ken Landauer lives and works in Stone Ridge, New York. He has had a recent solo exhibition at AH Gallery in Los Angeles. His work has also been included in a group exhibition at Collaborative Concepts Gallery in Beacon, New York. For two consecutive years he was commissioned to create site-specific installations for the Convergence Festival in Providence, Rhode Island.

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

This exhibition is made possible through the cooperation of the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York and City of New York / Parks & Recreation, The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor, and The Honorable Adrian Benepe, Commissioner, and William Castro, Manhattan Borough Commissioner, City of New York /Parks & Recreation.

Public Art Fund is a non-profit arts organization supported by generous gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations, and 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.

Location
City Hall Park is bordered by Chambers Street, Broadway, Centre Street, and Park Row.
The nearest subway stations are A, C, E to Chambers Street; 4, 5, 6 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall; N, R to City Hall; 2,3 to Park Place.