NYAB Event - Mark di Suvero Exhibition

Mark di Suvero Exhibition

Governors Island

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Mark di Suvero’s work has helped to shape our notion of modern sculpture. His monumental, spatially dynamic compositions, created using such industrial materials as I-beams and salvaged steel, reveal a masterful sense of form, composition, and movement, while also conveying poignant emotion and, frequently, a sense of play. This exhibition, organized by Storm King – itself home to one of the world’s greatest installations of the artist’s work – comprises a number of works sited across the 172-acre Governors Island, in New York City. It is be the largest outdoor presentation of di Suvero’s sculpture to be shown in the City since the 1970s.

With work from 1977 to works created for this exhibition, Mark di Suvero on Governors Island reveals the depth and variety that the artist has achieved within his intentionally limited range of materials. Works on loan from Storm King include: Mahatma, 1978–79, in which a 7,000-pound beam, bent into a “U” shape, rocks and turns on top of a sentinel-like I-beam, creating continually changing shadows and perspectives; For Chris, 1991, created by di Suvero as a memorial to his friend the late artist Chris Wilmarth; and Old Buddy (For Rosko), 1993–95, a composition of vertical and horizontal girders that is at once powerful and playful, named in memory of the artist’s dog.

Other works in the exhibition include She, 1977–78, a fifty-two-foot wide, dynamic composition that includes three suspended elements – a wooden platform, a steam roller, and an abstract composition – on loan from a private collection; Will, a forty-two-foot-high I-beam sculpture dating from 1994, which comes to Governors Island from The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection; and Fruit Loops, 2003, a sixteen-foot-high work in which elements of bent steel loop and intersect in a fanciful, energetic composition, from The Collection of Agnes Gund.

New works include Figalu, 2005–11, composed of painted I-beams and three large buoys suspended from a steel cable whose combination of forms creates a tension between dense and open spaces.

In addition to the outdoor works, the exhibition include an indoor, changing installation of photographs of Mr. di Suvero’s work at Storm King, along with videos of the artist installing his sculpture there.

Storm King has developed an app, as well as a Guide by Cell tour, to accompany this exhibition. Please see directions below on how to access these features:

For the Mobi App:
With your smartphone, text “STORM” to 56512

For the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch App:
Download the App “Storm King” from the iTunes store.

And for the Guide by Cell:
Dial (646) 205-7614, there are 21 entries. For each, dial the number followed by # when prompted. (So, 2#, for instance)