by CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times, May 10, 2013
Source: www.metmuseum.org
In 1998 when Ellsworth Kelly became the first living artist to exhibit on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he called the picture-postcard setting “an instant background.” When his sculptures — as tall as 14 feet — were installed there they looked enormous and the skyscrapers behind them tiny. Mr. Kelly compared this reversal of scale to Chinese landscape painting in the way it played with perspective.
This year’s exhibition on the Met’s roof garden, which opens Tuesday, is also a study in perspective, but this time the beauty and impact will be the diminutive nature of its creation. The Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi, who is known for his painstaking brushwork in the style of the 16th- and 17th-century Mughal miniaturists, is conceiving a site-specific painting that will be directly on the surface of the roof garden. His creation will relate not only to some of his earlier work, but also to the nature he has discovered in Central Park, whose vistas are an integral part of the setting. (Through Nov. 3, 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org)
The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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