Today, artist Marcie Revens and Scherezade Garcia will oversee a couple of outdoor art installation at St. Nicholas Park. The serpentine, cast metal Unity Ribbon looks to have some nice embossed script on the front side with mottled, painterly patterns on the reverse of it. There will also be a second sculptural mailboxes piece set up in the park. This one looks like it's worth checking out if you are around the west side. The closest train to this location is the B,C subway station at 135th Street. Get more information on the installations at this site:
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Today, artist Marcie Revens and Scherezade Garcia will oversee a couple of outdoor art installation at St. Nicholas Park. The serpentine, cast metal Unity Ribbon looks to have some nice embossed script on the front side with mottled, painterly patterns on the reverse of it. There will also be a second sculptural mailboxes piece set up in the park. This one looks like it's worth checking out if you are around the west side. The closest train to this location is the B,C subway station at 135th Street. Get more information on the installations at this site: LINK
Looks and smells like a total rip off, another boondoggle on the tax payer. Everyone thinks their another "Christo". I wonder how much money us tax payers forked over to these two Christo wannabees?
ReplyDeleteMarcie Revens is a photographer, how and why is a photographer getting paid for this type of stuff?....and this Scherezade Garcia character? Well all you gotta do is look at their website and read their personal statement....which is, "My work inhabits a baroque universe of different worlds of aesthetics and politics. It interests me to create allegories of history, power, love and politics. My fascination with the duality of everything is a essential part of my discourse; in many cases the duality of salvation, questioning of paradise and the expectations of eternity. I play with a variety of strategies to appropriate from and transform historical and geographical references of sources for inspiration."
What a bunch of crock? These artist tend to get so self absorbed they think by using words with lots of syllables they're actually saying something transcending or deep, when it truth this person lacks the skill set to be concise.
The Unity Ribbon? LOL, Sounds right up their with Festivus and how it has the aluminum pole. Yeah, nothing quite unites like a ton of cast metal on open green grass. Brilliant. It's a freaking curved metal fence preventing open use of green space. Fabulous, what an accomplishment! Give me a freaking break. Con Artist. Anyone know how much $$$ these two Artist Con'ed the City out of? I'd rather have the green space and know my tax dollars are more wisely spent!
Oh-Oh, me thinks a nerve has been struck!
ReplyDeleteDisrupting the free flowing grass in one of the few green spaces we have with a piece of metal does have a BP quality to it. Kind of like disrupting the ocean with an oil rig and calling it "Art". Perhaps BP can indeed come to the park and drill, it's a ida consistent with the installation, no?
ReplyDeleteShould we then get rid of all the playgrounds, swimming pool, baseball fields, amphitheater and basketball courts? Those take up one thousand times more space than some small scale art piece.
ReplyDeleteHmm. For me, these are pretty ugly. Something more subtle would have been far more tasteful.
ReplyDeleteI actually went to see this "art" today. 1. It's a shame this disrupts the free flowing hillside. 2. It's NOT METAL, this is made of flexible ply wood, very very thin cheap ply wood. 3. The green side with graffiti is particularly horrible because it offers no contrast to the green grass, you see it when approaching from 135th & 8th Ave. This "art" competes with the eye against the grass. 4. there's a reverse side that has some hints of blue, but very subtle.
ReplyDeleteOverall this is incredibly disappointing and we're all going to be better off when this is removed from disrupting the flowing grassy hills.
This is a particularly offensive "installation" on multiple levels (placement, materials, color, etc.). I seriously consider it in the category of "urban blight" and the only positive thing about it is that it's wonderfully forgettable once it's torn down.
Dispute my critique? Go see this crap yourself!
I must say that its unfortunate how negative people are on just about anything these days. There is nothing wrong with not liking something and saying it, but why does it have to go into attacking people? We should be supporting artists, and what they try to do than tearing them down.
ReplyDeleteThe works in the Park were not commissioned by the City of New York. Public art in general is not financed by the City. The process for the exhibition lasted a year with a competition, indoor exhibition, panel discussion and then public exhibition. It was a thoughtful process that included the history of the area. Celebrating what makes the neighborhood special should be embraced and not ridiculed.
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