FLOWERS FOR SEJIMA
16/11/2010.
Isa Genzken’s Rose II on the New Museum’s Façade. [NYC] USA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
On Saturday, November 13, the New Museum unveiled German artist Isa Genzken’s first public artwork in the United States, installed on the façade of the Museum’s building on the Bowery. Standing twenty-eight feet tall, Genzken’s Rose II (2007) is the second work (the first artwork was Ugo Rondinone’s Hell, Yes! (2001) and was installed in December 2007 ) to be presented as part of the New Museum’s ongoing Façade Sculpture Program since the building’s completion in December 2007.
A crucial figure in Post-war contemporary art, Genzken is a sculptor whose work re-imagines architecture, assemblage, and installation, giving form to new plastic environments and precarious structures. The artist represented Germany at the 2007 Venice Biennale and has shown her work in leading museums across Europe. She was among a group of prominent international artists featured in the exhibition “Unmonumental,” the survey that inaugurated the New Museum’s SANAA building.
Venue.- NEW MUSEUM. 235 Bowery. New York. NY. USA.
