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Public Art Fund, in collaboration
with the Whitney Museum, presents nine installations by seven
artists for the 2004 Biennial Exhibition. Building upon the outdoor
presentation of Biennial works in 2002, this year's show includes
artists' site-specific reactions to Central Park as well as several
sculptural projects that were conceived independently of location.
For the first time, the exhibition includes a weekend event of
openings and participatory artists' projects in the park.
The projects open in two phases. The first group, on view beginning
March 10, includes sculptural works by Paul
McCarthy, Liz Craft,
Olav Westphalen,
and David Altmejd.
Ranging from Westphalen's tabloid-inspired sculpture of a life-size
tiger to McCarthy's giant pink inflatable Daddies Bighead,
the projects collectively showcase the renewed importance of the
figure in contemporary art. On April
17, three locations in the park welcome openings and participatory
projects with artists assume
vivid astro focus, Dave
Muller, and Yayoi
Kusama.
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Paul
McCarthy - Daddies Bighead
Daddies
Bighead is the sculptural result of an ongoing series
of mixed-media works that date back to 1983, when McCarthy
incorporated a bottle of the British condiment Daddies Ketchup
into a performance.
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Paul
McCarthy - MJBH
MJBH
is one of a series of recent works McCarthy has made based
on artist Jeff Koon's famous sculpture, Michael Jackson
and Bubbles (1988). McCarthy's sculpture is an abstracted
representation of Jackson and his pet monkey.
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Liz
Craft - The Spare
Near
McCarthy's MJBH, Craft shows three versions of The
Spare, a bronze sculpture of a prickly pear cactus growing
from a discarded tire. These sculptures are exotic transplants
from a desert junkyard placed in contrast to Central Park's
well-kept grounds.
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Olav
Westphalen - The Weight of Dead Prey
Westphalen's
The Weight of Dead Prey is a life-size sculpture of
a ferocious tiger reclining in a small fenced-in area. Near
the tiger are objects modeled after the toys typically given
to large animals in captivity.
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David
Altmejd - Untitled (Swallow) and Untitled (Blue
Jay)
Altmejd's
werewolf heads are encrusted with glitter, pearls, and sparkling
rhinestones and crystals. These bejeweled grotesqueries are
shown in two Plexiglas cases, apparently preserving them in
two different stages of decomposition.
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assume
vivid astro focus - avaf 8
avaf
8 is the result of a collaboration between artist assume
vivid astro focus and industrial designer Rama Chorpash. Vibrant
graphics adorn a vinyl floorscape and canopy for the Skate
Circle in Central Park.
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Dave
Muller - Themeless (A Carnival of Sorts)
Muller
presents Themeless, a gallery space featuring works
by eight different artists, as part of his ongoing series
of Three Day Weekends.
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Yayoi
Kusama - Narcissus Garden
To
create Narcissus Garden, Kusama installs stainless
steel balls within a contained circular area in the Conservatory
Water, drawing the viewer into her alluring and unsettling
visual world.
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Sponsorship
The Public Art Fund projects
in Central Park, presented in collaboration with the Whitney Museum
of American Art, are sponsored by Bloomberg and generously supported
by Adam Lindemann.
David Altmejd's Untitled (Swallow) and Untitled (Bluejay),
and assume vivid astro focus's avaf 8 are projects of the
Public Art Fund program In the Public Realm, which is supported
by the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council
on the Arts, A State Agency, the City of New York Department of
Cultural Affairs, the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President,
The Greenwall Foundation, The Silverweed Foundation, The JPMorgan
Chase Foundation, and friends of the Public Art Fund. This exhibition is made possible through the cooperation of the
New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.
Location
The Public Art Fund projects
in Central Park are located throughout the entire length of Central
Park, from 60th Street to 110th Street. Please view individual
artist's pages for specific location information.
View a map of Public
Art Fund Projects in Central Park --A collaboration with the Whitney
Biennial.
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