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October 28, 2006
The World is Round
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Ratner enters the fray of the burgeoning Brooklyn art world with a public art exhibit in the oh-so-public space of Metrotech:
Public Art Fund makes the best of Brooklyn's MetroTech Center — the original Forest Ratner neighborhood-crushing behemoth — by commissioning young artists to create new installations on the premises. Masters of polystyrene foam, Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg cast a trio of soapboxes in aluminum and, fittingly, place them near Oratory Place. Diana Guerrero-Maciá's enormous, flattened icosidodecagon (a 32-sided shape) is a soccer ball spread out like a world map; Matt Johnson's boulder, 4eva, on the MetroTech lawn, also speaks about universal languages if you look closely enough at its quartz veins. For digs at the institution, Ryan McGinness, the splashy manipulator of corporate iconography, has embedded imposter wall signs among the real ones at MetroTech Commons.
Posted by amy at October 28, 2006 12:00 AM