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The new work ‘Half Moon’ by Abigail DeVille utilizes found materials and simultaneously bears witness to and transforms public neglect, decay, and marginalization. Resonating with the site’s historic role as ferry slip and landfill, as well as its new position in a post-industrial neighborhood, the sculpture addresses issues of migration and immigration.

“In 1609, a ship called the Half Moon (translated from the Dutch “De Halve Maen”) arrived off the coast of what would eventually become New York City. As the captain of the vessel, Henry Hudson, sailed up the river that would one day bear his name, he encountered some of the 10,000 or so indigenous people living on either bank. In his journals, Hudson reportedly described them as “clothed in mantles of feathers and robes of fur, the women clothed in hemp, red copper tobacco pipes, and other things of copper they did wear about their necks.” Tellingly, Hudson wrote not of people but possessions. It is fitting that the story of New York City begins with a man who saw land, objects, and profit, but not human beings.” -Isaac Kaplan
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Assinalando o 30.º aniversário do Socrates Sculpture Park este ano, a instituição apresenta LANDMARK, uma série de comissões e projetos artísticos que transformam o terreno tanto física como simbolicamente. Antigamente um aterro industrial e um local de despejo ilegal de lixo, o Socrates transformou-se no principal parque de esculturas e espaço social de Nova Iorque para arte pública, envolvimento comunitário e descoberta urbana. LANDMARK aborda diretamente a ideia de lugar como intimamente ligado a estruturas sociais e ecológicas, à manutenção e gestão, e à evolução ao longo do tempo.

Consulte o catálogo da exposição gratuitamente online em https://socratessculpturepark.org/digital/2016-landmark/” AQUI, não existe versão impressa disponível.

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