Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)

Populating City Hall Park with 13 monumental silhouettes of iconic works of art, Peter Coffin's Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes) takes the viewer on a journey through the history of sculpture. This idiosyncratic sculptural survey creates an environment in which variations on seminal sculptures are experienced in a new and unexpected context. In transforming famous works of art into flattened silhouettes, Coffin invites us to reflect and expand upon the associations evoked by each form.

Franz West: The Ego and the Id

The Ego and the Id is internationally acclaimed artist Franz West's newest and largest aluminum sculpture to date. Soaring 20 feet high, the piece consists of two similar but distinct, brightly colored, looping abstract forms, one bubble gum pink and the other alternating blocks of blue, green, orange, and yellow. Each of the forms curve up at the bottom creating stools that invite passersby to stop, take a seat, and directly engage with the artwork.

Double Take: Michael DeLucia, Christian de Vietri, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Johannes VanDerBeek, Matt Irie & Dominick Talvacchio

Double Take showcases five new commissions by six emerging artists. Designed with MetroTech Center's specific conditions in mind, the artists have taken an element of the existing architecture or environment and subjected it to a process of modification or metamorphosis. Each work plays with fantasy and illusion to force a shift in perception, in turn creating a mirage of sorts. Nothing is as it seems: a chain-link fence dissolves into pixels, a bonfire yearns for its flame, outdoors is indoors, a ghost lurks, and a lamppost bends. Double Take celebrates the curious over the comfortable, the strange over the simple, and the mysterious over the mundane.