Art Art &Photos 18 May 2008 08:24 am
PhotoSunday: Sculpture
- Some of you may remember that I gave some attention to some steel sculptured trees that were placed in Madison Square Park last year. They stood there for almost a year and became part of my daily trek through this city park.
This past week some objects started to appear on the large, Oval Lawn, and I started to photograph the setup.
It turns out to be a number
___________ (Click any image to enlarge.) ________________of ceramic works by
____________________________________________________Richard Deacon, a British sculptor. He has his own website. Oddly, his artwork doesn’t seem to be reproduced large in any of the photos on his site or others I visited.
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A tent was set up to protect the materials from the rain, and the
not-very-large sculptures were drawn out of wooden boxes.
There was the one tent on the side of the great lawn, and another tent
was set up over on a sandy side bar (about 100 yards away.)
The tents obviously protected the sculpture from the rain, and
it was raining while I shot some of these stills.
This was done off on the side. I’m not sure how the actual sculptures
were moved to the Oval Lawn. I don’t even know if they’re heavy,
though one assumes they must be to survive the weather.
Things came together quickly. At the end, there were a couple of
vehicles left standing about. There’s a truck in the background
of the photo on the left, and another is almost hidden
in the background of the photo on the right.
Finally everything seemed to be in place, and
the sculptures were all centrally located on the big lawn.
Here you can see the children’s playground in the background.
The sculptures almost seem to be part of it.
At the moment, the lawn is closed to pedestrians.
Once the public performance events begin to happen, it’ll be curious to see
how the public intermingles with these sculptures.
The art pieces do blend well with each other, though.
Something new to view on my walks.
After all the construction vehicles had disappeared, I noticed
a tool box off to the side. At least, I think it was a toolbox.
Just today, I noticed that they’ve added little markers in front of each piece to identify and give information about the art. The Oval Lawn is shut off to the public, so it’s not possible, at the moment, to read the markers.
I didn’t have my camera with me this morning. I’ll get photos of the final setups and post them on another day.
