Madison Square Park Conservancy asks artists to bring the outside in while New York remains under lockdown

The New York-based artist Arlene Shechet is one of the alumni artists participating in the Madison Square Park Conservancy's digital initiative #MadSqArtFromHome Photo: Jeremy Liebman and courtesy of the artists and Pace Gallery

More than 30 artists who have previously created projects for the Madison Square Park Conservancy will participate in the organisations digital initiative #MadSqArtFromHome, in which alumni artists will reflect on this unprecedented period in the world via short videos posted on Instagram each week. The New York-based non-profit arts organisation, which typically commissions bi-annual projects for the bustling Flatiron District park—launched the project on 1 April with the Austrian artist Erwin Redl, who installed a blizzard of incandescent lights in Madison Square Parks central lawn in his 2017 commission Whiteout. In his video for the initiative, Redl is shown walking through a large, empty swamp near his studio in Ohio, where the artist says it is nearly impossible to "get cabin fever". The digital project will take various forms as it works to bring the outside in.

The initiative is scheduled until 25 May—by which time perhaps the park will be open again—and feature a line-up of work by artists such as Jaume Plensa, Bill Fontana, Ivan Navarro, Leonardo Drew and others who have been commissioned by the conservancy. Last week, the American sculptor Arlene Shechet—who created the 2018 installation Full Steam Ahead around the cirRead More – Source

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