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Thursday Dec 06, 2007
Sunday in the Park with Tom
Otterness is perhaps best known for "Life Underground," his more than 100 mischievous, cartoony bronze figures scattered about the A/C/E subway station at 14th St. and 8th Ave. in Manhattan. His roly-poly corps of people, animals, and objects inhabits a parallel universe that teems with curiosity and industry: they sweep up piles of pennies, tote oversized tools, and peek under fences. All the while, the supercute figures toy subversively with such themes as love, money, security, and class. "A lot of artists that do public sculpture think of site-specific work. I try to think of subject-specific work--in other words, if it's Battery Park and the World Trade Center and the World Financial Center, I think, oh, it's the financial community, so it's content around that," Otterness told us when we spoke with him just before the opening of his first major gallery exhibition in five years (and Marlborough Chelsea's inaugural show). "I try to boil it down into this universal form, one that includes...major cultures as well as the smiley face and pop, universal sign-symbols. I'm trying to meld all of those things together to create a universal language that hopefully crosses cultures and that everybody can read simply." Email This Post |
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