Visit to New York City, New York

Isaac Kremer/ May 2, 2011/ Field Notes, Physical, placemaking, public art/ 0 comments

Inset panel with engraving of a photograph or drawing. Inscription says, “In the 1860’s, 14th Street near Union Square was called ‘Piano Row.'” Date of installation is 2002.

The Andy Monument is an installation recognizing Andy Warhol.

Finally, while visiting Madison Square Park we saw a temporary installation by Spanish artist Jaume Plesna’s. Echo is a 44-foot sculpture and the largest monolithic piece to be displayed in the seven years of Madison Square Art, the park’s public contemporary arts program.

According to W Magazine, the sculpture is “Made of marble gel-coated, fiberglass-reinforced plastic, the visage’s features are fashioned after a nine-year-old girl who, for Plensa, represented the borderless world today (her mother is Chinese, she was born in Brazil, and lives in Catalonia, where Plesna discovered her). It has a candescence in the day, with height to parallel the verticality of the park’s surroundings.”

https://www.wmagazine.com/story/jaume-plesnas-echo

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