New sculptures on the facade of New York’s Metropolitan Museum
Published: Friday, Sep 13th 2024, 03:10
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Four new sculptures by South Korean artist Lee Bul will adorn the façade of New York's Metropolitan Museum in the coming months. The artist, who was born in 1964, designed four abstract sculptures for the four niches in the façade, which will be on display until May 2025.
"My hope is that a personal connection and resonance will be created between the people, the art and the architecture," said Lee. The works "explore the complexities of human existence through strong, hybrid forms," said Austrian Met director Max Hollein.
Lee is the fifth artist to fill the four niches on the façade of the famous museum in Central Park. Although the niches were left free for sculptures when the museum was built, they were only filled with works of art for the first time almost 120 years later.
In 2019, the Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu installed four different bronze sculptures inspired by the customs of African women. Since then, a different artist has been commissioned by the museum to fill the niches with works every year. In 2020, sculptures by Geneva-born artist Carol Bove were supposed to adorn the Met, but this façade exhibition was then postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2022, works by Scottish-born artist Hew Locke, who grew up in Guyana, were to be installed in the niches, and in 2023 works by German-Iranian artist Nairy Baghramian.
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