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A Look Back At Statuesque
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Published Mar 12, 2011
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From June 2 to December 3 last year, the city was treated to Statuesque, a public exhibition in City Hall Park featuring 10 major figurative sculpture works by six international artists. The exhibition, presented by the Public Art Fund, included the NY debuts of works by Pawel Althamer, Huma Bhaba, Aaron Curry, Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan, and Rebecca Warren. Reader wallyg recently uploaded these photos, so here's a look at the art installation you might have missed.
"Long considered marginal in the contemporary art world, figurative sculpture has returned to center stage in the recent works of an international group of artists born in the 1960s and 1970s" said Public Art Fund's Director and Chief Curator Nicholas Baume. Public Art Fund has several other projects underway or upcoming, including a large-scale sculpture project on memory, Rob Pruitt's monument to Andy Warhol, and an outdoor career survey of Sol LeWitt's sculptures.
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