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大都会博物馆的空中花园2011
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每年4月底至10月底，大都会博物馆都会在全球范围内选择一名艺术家，在顶层花园举办个人展览。中国艺术家蔡国强，2006年曾在顶楼花园展览，成为第一个在大都会博物馆展出个人展览的当代艺术家。去年大都会选择了一对双胞胎艺术家，在顶层搭起了巨大的竹棚。
今年，大都会博物馆的选择是87岁的英国雕塑家Anthony Caro。本来在今年春季博物馆会员手册上介绍的是另外一个人，我记得作者出生于1970年代，不知何故又换了。
每逢周五至周六傍晚，大都会博物馆的空中花园成为纽约最有情调的空中酒吧。从楼顶俯瞰绿色的中央公园，令人心旷神怡。到10月底，还可以在这里看到公园的红叶。
所有图片，4月30日周六下午至晚上现场拍摄。
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展览信息：
安东尼·卡洛雕塑特展
2011年4月26日至10月30日。
（下面文字选自大都会博物馆网站www.metmuseum.org）
Anthony Caro on the Roof
April 26, 2011–October 30, 2011 (weather permitting)
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden
Sculptures by Anthony Caro (b. 1924)—who is considered the most
influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation and a key
figure in the development of modernist sculpture over the last sixty
years—are featured in the 2011 installation on The Iris and B. Gerald
Cantor Roof Garden. The installation includes a selection of sculpture
in steel, painted and unpainted, spanning the artist's career to date
and highlighting principal aspects of his long career: engagement with
form in space, dialogue between sculpture and architecture, and creation
of new, abstract analogies for the human figure and landscape.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first exhibition of steel sculpture by the artist, who lives and works in London. The large-scale works on view this summer are Midday, 1960 (Museum of Modern Art, New York), After Summer, 1968 (Collection of Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto), Odalisque, 1984 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Blazon, 1987–90 (Courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York and Annely Juda Fine Art, London), and End Up, 2010 (Collection of the artist, courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York). The installation is situated in the Museum's dramatic open-air space offering unparalleled views of Central Park and the New York City skyline.
The exhibition is made possible by Bloomberg.
Additional support is provided by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky.
More About the Artist
Anthony Caro earned a master's degree in engineering at Cambridge University, studied sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools in London, then worked as assistant to Henry Moore in the early 1950s. After his first visit to the United States in 1959, when he became acquainted with the work of painter Kenneth Noland and sculptor David Smith, he moved away from figurative art entirely. He made his first polychrome sculpture, Sculpture Seven, in 1961, and that same year exhibited the only sculpture (The Horse, 1961) in the New London Situation, an exhibition of "situation paintings" held at Marlborough New London Gallery. Caro came to public attention with an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1963, where he exhibited large, abstract, steel sculptures brightly painted and standing directly on the ground, so that viewers could approach and interact with the works from all sides; this represented a radical departure from the way sculpture had been presented in the past and was described by the artist as an attempt "to make sculpture more real." Caro's innovative work was complemented by his teaching at St. Martin's School of Art in London from 1953 to 1981, where he influenced a younger generation of British abstract sculptors including Phillip King, Bruce McLean, Barry Flanagan, Richard Long, and Gilbert and George.Caro often works in steel, but also in a diverse range of other materials, including bronze, silver, lead, stoneware, wood, and paper. Major exhibitions of his work have included retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1975), the Trajan Markets, Rome (1992), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1995), Tate Britain, London (marking his eightieth birthday in 2005), and three museums in Pas-de-Calais, France (2008), to accompany the opening of his Chapel of Light at Saint Jean-Baptiste Church in Bourbourg. He has been awarded many prizes, including the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture in Tokyo in 1992 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture in 1997. He holds many honorary degrees from universities in the United Kingdom, United States, and Europe. He was knighted in 1987 and received the Order of Merit from the Queen in May 2000.
About The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden opened to the public in 1987. The past thirteen installations have featured large-scale works by Ellsworth Kelly, Magdalena Abakanowicz, David Smith, Joel Shapiro, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Goldsworthy, Sol LeWitt, Cai Guo-Qiang, Frank Stella, Jeff Koons, Roxy Paine, and Doug and Mike Starn.
Sandwiches, snacks, desserts, and beverage service—including espresso, cappuccino, iced tea, soft drinks, wine, and beer—are available at the Roof Garden Café, weather permitting.
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发表评论 评论 (19 个评论)
- 回复 rubin
To: 世和 你曾经说:
红门展览是2月份，记得展览中间还下雪。
在纽约能在顶楼欣赏景致的地点确实很少, 大都会博物馆顶楼的确是好推介,尤其欣赏中央公园.
可惜05年的“红门“展, 错过了由大都会博物馆顶楼俯拍的效果.
大都会顶楼冬天关闭，每年开放时间4月底至10月底。
- 回复 天鹅公主
- 小诗一首 五百年---题RUBIN 摄影图片
是否还记得
五百年前的一个午后
你我相遇在大都会博物馆的楼头
春风拂面
光影温柔
你悄悄地走到我身边
轻声问候
于是
轻轻地
我与你握了一下手
然后
我们一起赏风景
一起话神州
你又说
“我是否可以请你去喝一杯红酒”
我浅浅地笑了
告别说
“等五百年之后”
------天鹅公主
