This fall, acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei will plant a serious outside set up at New York’s Franklin D. Roosevelt 4 Freedoms State Park, kicking off the park’s Artwork X Freedom program which commissions artists to create public, site-specific works circling visions of social justice.
Titled Camouflage, the set up will remodel the park’s 3.5-acre panorama. An open-air construction clad in camouflage netting will rise on the park’s southernmost tip, cloaking over the bust of Roosevelt and his engraved 4 Freedoms. The granite embankments flanking the park will even be lined, making a shifting play of sunshine and water, with views throughout to the United Nations headquarters.
Drawing on the park’s Louis Kahn-helmed design, historical past and symbolic hyperlink to the UN, the piece intends to spark reflection on vulnerability, safety and, in true Ai trend, the slipperiness of reality. “The idea of this venture is rooted within the English time period camouflage outlined within the Oxford Dictionary as each a method of disguise and concealment and as a software for creating illusions to guard or to mislead,” Ai expressed in a latest assertion.
“The paintings makes use of the symbolic nature of camouflage to spark a dialogue about what wants safety and what requires the elimination of disguise to disclose reality. This can be a difficult query, however addressing it’s important.”
Camouflage might be on view from September 10 by means of December 1. Head to the park’s web site for extra updates and knowledge.
FDR 4 Freedoms Park
1 FDR 4 Freedoms Park,
Roosevelt Island, NY 10044
