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| Press Release (pdf:23k) Artist Bio Sponsorship Location Doris C. Freedman Park project photos
Meeting Point 3, Laube, Ypsilon, Dorit, Bronze,
Double Ring, and Couch July 7 - August 31, 2004 at Lincoln Center and Doris C. Freedman Plaza
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| Franz West: Recent Sculptures is the
first major U.S. outdoor survey of the sculpture of artist Franz West. Organized
by Public Art Fund, the presentation of seven sculptures at Lincoln Center
marks the first collaboration between the two institutions. A second installation
of sculptures is sited at Doris C. Freedman Plaza. Franz West: Recent
Sculptures brings together recent and newly commissioned works made
by West between 2002 and 2004.
Seven of West's sculptures stretch in a colorful row across the entrance
to Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza on Broadway, forming a festive
gateway. With their looping arches and twisted colorful forms, they transform
New York's premiere performing arts complex into a fantastical landscape.
At the center of the row is Dorit, a 20-foot-tall column of four
knobby spheres, strung together like gigantic pink gumballs on a pole.
Next to Dorit is Bronze, a slender vertical corkscrew whose
title evokes the conventional bronze sculptures that often adorn urban
plazas. Other works in this grouping include Couch (a fitting title
for an artist who hails from Freud's hometown), Laube, Meeting
Point 3, Double Ring, and Ypsilon. Like the rest of
his wide-ranging body of work, West's sculptures are meant to directly
engage the viewer. "I like art in the streets," West has said.
"It doesn't demand that you make a special journey to see it, it's
simply there." Artist Bio Franz West lives and works in Vienna, where he was born in 1947. He has
exhibited internationally for more than three decades in galleries and
museums, and at major festivals including Documenta IX (1992) and Documenta
X (1997), Kassel, Germany; Sculpture Projects in Münster (1997);
and the Venice Biennale (1988, 1993, 1997, 2003). His work has recently
been exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2003); Kunsthalle Wien,
Vienna (2003); Gagosian Gallery, New York (2003); Museo Nacional de Arte
Reina Sofía, Madrid (2001); and elsewhere. He had a solo exhibition
at The Museum of Modern Art in 1997. Sponsorship Operation of Lincoln Center's public plazas is supported in part with public funds provided by The City of New York. The presentation at Doris C. Freedman Plaza is made possible through the cooperation and support of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Special thanks to Gagosian Gallery, New York. About Lincoln Center Location
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