Next up after Christo’s “Gates” ...
It wasn’t long ago that 7500 gates bearing saffron fabric panels were installed by the artist Christo on the pathways of Central Park. The latest entry in New York’s public art arena comes from England’s Antony Gormley. Gormley is best known for his most recent project, “One and Other”. He arranged for real people to occupy a bare plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square for an hour each for 100 days. Twenty-four hundred people were selected to participate, from 35,000 applicants. Gormley had proposed that people would come together to do something extraordinary and unpredictable—and in fact the participants more than fulfilled that rubric, with everything from speeches to drama to striptease.
Now, Gormley brings his first public art project to New York. From March 26 to August 15, 20010, New Yorkers will be catching glimpses of 31 different sculptures of a naked man in and around Madison Square Park. According to Gormley, “It’s about where the human body fits into the scheme of things.” Welcome to the Big Apple!
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