Miquel Barcelò: Gran Elefandret (Marlborough Gallery)
Date:
Tuesday, September 13th to May 29th 2012
Start Time:
7:00 AM
Location:
Union Square Triangle
Description:
Gran Elefandret, 2008, by renowned artist Miquel Barceló is the second world class public art installation to grace Union Square. The piece commissioned by Marlborough Gallery and created by renowned artist Miquel Barceló will be on view at the Union Square Triangle beginning September 13, 2011 through the end of May 2012.
It is with great pleasure that the Gallery brings this monumental bronze sculpture to Union Square, a place that epitomizes New York’s unrivaled energy and serves as both a transportation and cultural bridge between uptown and downtown Manhattan.
Barcelo’s immense Gran Elefandret, balances upright on its trunk, its four massive legs outspread searching for equilibrium. At twenty-six feet tall the sculpture brilliantly portrays an extraordinary, if not impossible physical and cultural feat; this contemporary monument believably captures with humor, scale and Spanish courage the essence of what a public monument can be today.
Gran Elefandret is on view until May 29th, 2012.
