Alicja Kwade’s planetary sculpture at the Met
Given
that Project 4 is all about public art and installations and my artist
presentation is on Ai Wei Wei, I found Kwade’s sculptures to be very relevant. Working
primarily in sculpture and installation, Polish-German artist Alicja Kwade
explores structures of reality such as time and space, as well as systems of
value, that determine how we perceive the world and decide what constitutes as
reality. Her art tests or bend the
laws of physics and that explore broader questions about the nature of reality
and our position within the universe. By placing visitors in a position of
self-contemplation, she hoped to encourage them to question our place in the universe.
By bringing the planetary to
human scale, Kwade was recently awarded this summer’s
commission for the Cantor Roof Garden of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art for her works, “ParaPivot I” and “ParaPivot II.” The two large sculptures, made of painted steel and precious marble,
suggests a system of planets brought down to Manhattan, afloat on the skyline.
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- Sheryl
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