Christian de Vietre - 'The Gathering' - Public Art Fund, New York

Posted by Admin on the 28th of January, 2010

Double Take:

Michael DeLucia, Christian de Vietri, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Johannes VanDerBeek, Matt Irie & Dominick Talvacchio

http://publicartfund.org/doubletake>

Double Take showcases five new commissions by six emerging artists. Designed with MetroTech Center's specific conditions in mind, the artists have taken an element of the existing architecture or environment and subjected it to a process of modification or metamorphosis. Each work plays with fantasy and illusion to force a shift in perception, in turn creating a mirage of sorts. Nothing is as it seems: a chain-link fence dissolves into pixels, a bonfire yearns for its flame, outdoors is indoors, a ghost lurks, and a lamppost bends.Double Take celebrates the curious over the comfortable, the strange over the simple, and the mysterious over the mundane.