Wednesday, May 15, 2013

MET roof installation-toss it off the roof

Yesterday was the 1st day to view the latest installation atop the MET.  When you step on the roof & question where is the installation - look down.  Imran Qureshi, a Pakistani artist, painted a site-specific mural beneath your feet which brings into a melee of a blood-red painting.  You are standing directly on top of a vast carnage.  Should you delve further, you will notice foliage forming within the red-spattered painted with white brush strokes.  The MET's rooftop was 1st utilized as an outdoor gallery amidst the serenity & the beauty of Central Park in '98 by Ellsworth Kelly.  Kelly's large scale structures, up to 14', were intended to provide a new perspective on the landscape & skycrappers framing  Central Park.  Qureshi's red acrylic sprawling paint is intended to be disturbing.  Perhaps, the artist's intent is to emphasize of the ubiquitous & ruthless bloodshed that has become all too common place in our world?  Perhaps, the artist is showing rebirth from within destruction?  I thought the "installation" amidst the picture-postcard setting of serenity in Central Park was Bloody Crap.

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