Art Across the Park – exhibition at Central Park New York City (1982)

Loops / Serpentina (1982)
Painted aluminum pipes / tubos de aluminio pintados

Loops / Serpentina (1982)
Painted aluminum pipes / tubos de aluminio pintados

Shortly after completing his residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Jorge Luis was invited, along with fourteen other artists, to design artwork that would be installed throughout Central Park in Manhattan. David Hammons had conceived “Art Across the Park” in 1979 with the purpose of presenting site-specific artwork by young and emerging artists in public parks throughout New York City. Curators Horace Brockington and Gylbert Coker organized the project as a non-profit institution under the umbrella of El Museo del Barrio for its first run in 1980. It was then merged with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council until the project’s end in 1984. Site-specific art had been a growing artistic movement beginning in the mid to late 1960s. Unlike the modernist trend that preceded it, site-specific art is created with location in mind. Loops is a series of painted aluminum pipes which are meant to create the illusion of a continuous line that runs below and above the earth. The artist chose the color red to accentuate its contrast with the green landscape.

Poco despues de completar su residencia en Studio Museum in Harlem, Jorge Luis fue invitado, junto con otros catorce artistas, a disenar obras de arte que serian instaladas en el Central Park de Manhattan. David Hammons habia concebido „Art Across the Park“ en 1979 con el proposito de presentar arte de sitio especifico de artistas jovenes y emergentes en parques publicos a traves de la ciudad de Nueva York. Los curadores Horace Brockington y Gylbert Coker organizaron el proyecto como una institucion sin fines de lucro bajo los auspicios del Museo del Barrio para su primera ejecucion en 1980. Luego se fusiono con el Lower Manhattan Cultural Council hasta que finalizara el proyecto en 1984. El arte de sitio especifico ha sido un movimiento artistico creciente que comienza a mediados de los anos 60. A diferencia de la tendencia modernista que lo precedio, el arte especifico del sitio se crea con la ubicacion en mente. Serpentina es una serie de tubos de aluminio pintado que estan destinados a crear la ilusion de una linea continua que corre por debajo y por encima de la tierra. El artista eligio el color rojo para acentuar su contraste con el paisaje verde.

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