Mad Sq Art 2007 Roxy Paine / [Catálogos de exposiciones]

By: Roxy Paine (Mayo 15 - diciembre 31, 2007, Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York)Contributor(s): Paine, Roxy, 1966- [Artista] | Madison Square Park Conservancy Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Madison Square Park Conservancy, 2007. Description: 21 páginas : fotos a color, 28 cm Media type: Volumen Other title: Madison Square Park : Art 2007 Roxy Paine [Other title] | Mad Sq Art Roxy Paine [Cover title]Subject(s): Paine, Roxy, 1966- -- Trabajos artísticos | Artistas plásticos estadounidenses -- Siglo XXI -- Catálogo de exposición | Arte conceptual -- Siglo XXI -- Catálogo de exposición | Escultura estadounidense -- Siglo XXI -- Catálogo de exposición | Catálogos y exposicionesDDC classification: 709.9747 P14m 2007 Online resources: Recurso en lìnea

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Foreword. -- Roxy Paine and the Changing Nature of Nature by Eleanor Heartney. -- Roxy Paine. -- Previous Mad. Sq. Art Exhibitions. -- Support

Abstract: Brightening our day is the arrival of the Madison Square Park Conservancy's public-art series. This year the installation is made up of two stainless-steel tree sculptures -- ''Conjoined'' and ''Defunct'' -- and a glacierlike boulder, ''Erratic,'' by Roxy Paine, a conceptual artist who often juxtaposes nature and modern industrialization. The tree sculptures are made from thousands of pieces of metal pipe and rod elements that have been cut, welded and polished. They are real enough to resemble actual trees but not so real that they form a continuum with the surrounding foliage. They are familiar but inescapably strange. The work that captures your immediate attention is ''Conjoined,'' right, a 40-foot-tall-by-45-foot-wide sculpture of two trees whose gleaming steel branches cantilever and then improbably connect in midair. It is impossible to tell where the branches of one tree begin and the other end. But the piece is also beautifully eccentric, a futuristic fantasy of streamlined vegetation manufactured in imitation of the real thing, only much more appealing and exciting. ''Conjoined'' is an eerily apt emblem for our era's obsession with the promises of cloning and genetic enhancement. As for Mr. Paine, no other artist I know so poetically addresses the fraught intersection of earth and art. (Through Dec. 31, Madison Square Park, 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue, 212-538-4689, www.madisonsquarepark.org.) "BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO New York Times"

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Catalogo de exposición	ArtNexus General	709.9747 P14m 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Ej.1	Available	Donación Quinta Galería. 2017		10169

Foreword. -- Roxy Paine and the Changing Nature of Nature by Eleanor Heartney. -- Roxy Paine. -- Previous Mad. Sq. Art Exhibitions. -- Support

Publicación con ocasión de la exposición Roxy Paine Mayo 15 - diciembre 31, 2007, Madison Square Park , New York.

Brightening our day is the arrival of the Madison Square Park Conservancy's public-art series. This year the installation is made up of two stainless-steel tree sculptures -- ''Conjoined'' and ''Defunct'' -- and a glacierlike boulder, ''Erratic,'' by Roxy Paine, a conceptual artist who often juxtaposes nature and modern industrialization. The tree sculptures are made from thousands of pieces of metal pipe and rod elements that have been cut, welded and polished. They are real enough to resemble actual trees but not so real that they form a continuum with the surrounding foliage. They are familiar but inescapably strange. The work that captures your immediate attention is ''Conjoined,'' right, a 40-foot-tall-by-45-foot-wide sculpture of two trees whose gleaming steel branches cantilever and then improbably connect in midair. It is impossible to tell where the branches of one tree begin and the other end. But the piece is also beautifully eccentric, a futuristic fantasy of streamlined vegetation manufactured in imitation of the real thing, only much more appealing and exciting. ''Conjoined'' is an eerily apt emblem for our era's obsession with the promises of cloning and genetic enhancement. As for Mr. Paine, no other artist I know so poetically addresses the fraught intersection of earth and art. (Through Dec. 31, Madison Square Park, 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue, 212-538-4689, www.madisonsquarepark.org.) "BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO New York Times"

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