Antony Gormley "Event Horizon"
Mad. Sq. Art
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Mad. Sq. Art, part of Madison Square Park Conservancy, presents "Event Horizon," thirty-one life-size body forms of the artist cast in iron and fiberglass will inhabit the pathways and sidewalks of historic Madison Square Park as well as the rooftops of the architectural treasures that populate New York's vibrant Flatiron District. Event Horizon will mark Gormley's United States public art debut; a milestone for an artist whose work has garnered worldwide acclaim over the past 25 years; as well as the first time Mad. Sq. Art has exhibited works outside of Madison Square Park.
According to the artist, "The installation connects the palpable, the perceivable and the imaginable, creating a relational field in which the passerby as well as the aware viewer is implied in a matrix of looking and being looked at." A fascinating intervention into the urban environment, Event Horizon explores the relationship between the public, as it moves throughout the installation neighborhood, and the art object—the human form. Four figures will be placed at ground level, tangibly interrupting the course of daily life within Madison Square Park as the epicenter of the district-wide installation. Twenty-seven works will be placed on rooftops as high as 55 stories up and on parapets around the Park, including such architecturally noteworthy buildings in the area as Daniel Burnham's The Flatiron Building, Cass Gilbert's New York Life Building, The Clock Tower Building (formerly the MetLife Building), and 200 Fifth Avenue (formerly known as The Toy Building). Viewers will be encouraged to journey throughout the area, to take in views of all thirty-one of Gormley's sculptures and the city's urban landscape from both nearby and afar.
[Image: Blind Light exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London (2007)]
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Schedule
from March 23, 2010 to August 15, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-03-23 from 9:30
Official innauguaration.