Item #153030 Roxy Paine. Eleanor Heartney.
Roxy Paine
Roxy Paine
Roxy Paine
Roxy Paine

Roxy Paine

New York: Madison Square Park Conservancy, 2007. Softcover. White stapled wraps with front cover title. 21 pp. with 14 color photos. Good+ (clean and tight but with light cover smudging, stickerk on cover, and gallery stamp on ffep. Item #153030

Roxy Paine’s long interest in the juxtaposition of nature and industrialization has brought form to an extensive body of work. From his mushroom and plant fields to his art-making machines and large-scale metal trees, Paine continues to see nature through an industrial prism. Through work that combines the organic with the manufactured, he questions our position between the man-made world that we control and nature’s world that we do not. Conjoined is a 40-feet-tall sculpture of two trees whose branches cantilever in space and connect in mid air. Paine creates two different tree species with each branch of one joining to a branch of the other. For the observer, it is unclear where one tree begins and the other ends. Conjoined, with its gleaming steel branches and improbable marriage of two species, embodies man’s complex relationship with the empirical and utopian. As Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, “We want the Exact and the Vast; we want our Dreams, and our Mathematics.” Defunct is a 42-feet-tall stainless steel sculpture of a dead or dying tree infiltrated with fungus. The trunk and limbs have deteriorated from disease or old age. The beauty of the once daunting, vibrant tree is shadowed by the growing rot and shelf fungus. The death of the tree has given life to the fungus. Defunct, a meditation on loss and life, describes the symbiosis between industry and earth, between production and natural selection. Paine’s Erratic is his newest transformation of a natural phenomenon. Erratic is a stainless steel boulder measuring 7 feet high by 15 feet wide. The term “erratic” refers to a rock that is found in an area where it bears little or no relationship to the underlying geology. Essentially, it is a boulder that has been carried by a glacier hundreds of miles away from its original geographic location. Erratic’s slick exterior leaves its origin unexplained. It is a boulder displaced from somewhere between a mountain and a steel factory. - See more at: http://www.madisonsquarepark.org/art/roxy-paine-three-sculptures#sthash.dKbp2T4B.dpuf.

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