Presentation on the Hudson River by the Fire Department of New York City s Marine Company 9 and their fireboat the Fire Fighter II during the groundbreaking for David Hammons's Days End
The Whitney Museum of American Art has broken ground on David Hammonss permanent public work Days End (2020)—an ambitious permanent work that will be situated across from the museum in the southern edge of Gansevoort Peninsula. The work has been developed in collaboration with the Hudson River Park Trust and is due to be completed in the fall of 2020.
The New York-based artist says the project is a “ghost monument” to the Modernist artist Gordon Matta-Clarks 1975 work of the same name, in which the artist cut openings into the abandoned Pier 52 building and transformed the derelict site into a monumental sculpture. In July next year, the museum will launch an exhibition of works from its permanent collection related to the piece and Hammonss work, called Around Days End: Downtown New York, 1970-1986 (until October 2020).
The Whitneys director Adam Weinberg says the open structure of the work “is a welcoming metaphor that represents our commitment to community and civic good”.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and bandleader Henry Threadgill performing at the Whitney Museum for the debut of the overture to his piece 6 to 5, 5 to 6, a two-part work commissioned by the Whitney on the occasion of David Hammonss Days End
The launch event on 16 September included a choreographed water display on the Hudson River by the Fire Department of New York Citys Marine Company 9 that was complemented with a new sound commission by the Pulitzer Prize-winning compose Henry ThrRead More – Source
