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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Seventy Eight: Figures in the sky – a public art exhibition > Grounded, New York City, New York, 2010
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10-JUL-2010

Grounded, New York City, New York, 2010

This figure, the last in my series of impressions of Antony Gormley’s public art exhibition “Event Horizons,” stands at ground level, near the Madison Avenue entrance to Madison Square Park. It is one of four figures cast in iron instead of fiberglass. All of these iron figures stand at ground level within the park or at nearby intersections. I abstract the figure by silhouetting it, and place it within a geometric grid of lines and shapes. The square upon which it stands echoes the rectangular window frame across the street. The upright posture of the sculpture repeats the upright flow of the light pole across the street. Most importantly, the large white lines that sweep across the intersection lead the eye from the sculpture to the traffic light, where a red hand symbolically asks us to stop and consider the meaning of the exhibit itself.

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