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Post by mickthecactus on May 6, 2024 17:58:35 GMT
I shall enquire.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 13, 2024 2:39:10 GMT
She really takes great photographs! I have the same question as Bjd, but don't think the seated statue is Lincoln.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 13, 2024 6:54:22 GMT
Regret daughter couldn’t find out.
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Post by htmb on May 13, 2024 11:43:50 GMT
The statues are by Charles Ray, and depict aging hipsters Adam and Eve (2023), 385 Ninth Avenue, New York City Photo : Brookfield Properties.
"Among the newest of New York’s public sculptures, Adam and Eve is situated within the freshly completed Manhattan West development (385 Ninth Avenue) that rises just across Tenth Avenue from Hudson Yards. The piece (on long-term loan from a private collection) depicts the original sinners of the Bible as an aged couple undaunted by the mess they created for the rest of us. They’re the handiwork of West Coast artist Ray Charles, whose signature approach to figuration takes a detour through the uncanny valley. The larger-than-life Adam and Eve follows suit with realistic details—including Adam’s paunch—undermined by the shiny surface of the solid-aluminum blocks from which the figures were machined. Charles renders them as a pair of geriatric hipsters, most likely artists, with Adam sporting a Benjamin Franklin fringe of shoulder-length hair and Eve, who is seated, wearing an insouciantly tied scarf, as if they’d wandered into a gallery opening after their banishment from the Garden of Eden.” Artnews.com
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Post by mickthecactus on May 13, 2024 11:52:46 GMT
Fascinating stuff htmb. Thanks!
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