Event Horizon New York
From 26 March - 15 August 2010, Mad. Sq. Art (part of Madison Square Park Conservancy), will present Antony Gormley’s first US public art project - Event Horizon. 31 life-size body forms of the artist cast in iron and fibreglass will inhabit the pathways and sidewalks of historic Madison Square Park, as well as the rooftops of the architectural treasures that populate New York’s vibrant Flatiron District. A fascinating intervention into the urban environment, Event Horizon explores the relationship between the public as it moves throughout the installation neighbourhood, and the art object - the human form. Four sculptures will be placed at ground level, tangibly interrupting the course of daily life within Madison Square Park as the epicentre of the district-wide installation. 27 works will be placed on rooftops as high as 55 stories up and on parapets around the Park, including such architecturally noteworthy buildings in the area as Daniel Burnham’s The Flatiron Building, Cass Gilbert’s New York Life Building, The Clock Tower Building (formerly the MetLife Building), and 200 Fifth Avenue (formerly known as The Toy Building).
Photograph: Event Horizon, New York, USA. Installation view. Photograph by James Ewing, New York.