Go See: New York – Jaume Plensa ‘Echo’ AT Madison Square Park, through August 14th, 2011
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Jaume Plensa, Echo (2011) – All photos by Art Observed
Jaume Plensa’s latest site-specific installation titled ‘Echo’ marks his long anticipated debut for New York City and is both the largest and costliest project to date for the Madison Square Park Conservancy. At 44 feet tall, the portrait of a nine-year old girl from Plensa’s hometown Barcelona entrances spectators with its monumental scale, distorted facial features, and the white polyester resin and marble dust veneer that creates the illusion of an otherworldly apparition or hologram sprouting from the Oval Lawn.
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