Against the Run by Polish Artist Alicja Kwade in Central Park, NY

Public Art Fund announces Against the Run, the first solo public art commission in the United States by Polish-born, Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade. An uncanny adaptation of the classic New York City street clock, Kwade's 16 foot-tall sculpture -- specifically conceived for Doris C. Freedman Plaza will display the correct time in a perplexing way. Simultaneously running in reverse while keeping a precise and accurate display of real time, Against the Run will challenge the conventions of time-telling by moving both forward in one sense, and backward in another.

Playfully confounding our expectations, Alicja Kwade's conceptually elegant work forces us to look twice, rethink our assumptions, and see the most familiar of objects as if for the first time, said Nicholas Baume, Public Art Fund Director & Chief Curator.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Alicja Kwade (b. 1979, Katowice, Poland) lives and works in Berlin. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at Kunstverein St. Gallen, Switzerland (2014); Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Germany (2013); Villa Tokyo, Japan (2011); and Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2008), among other institutions. Her work has also been presented in numerous group shows at institutions including Kunst Museum Palais, Vienna (2014); CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2012); Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2011); and at City Hall Park in New York City, as part of Public Art Funds 2013 exhibition Lightness of Being. She is the receipient of the Hector Prize 2015 and the Piepenbrock Prize for Sculpture in 2008. Her work was included in the 10th Istanbul Biennale in 2007. Kwade is represented by 303 Gallery in New York and KÖNIG GALERIE.

On view September 10, 2015 - February 14, 2016

Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park (Southeast entrance at the corner of 60th Street and 5th Avenue)


This exhibition is curated by Public Art Fund Director & Chief Curator Nicholas Baume.

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