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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Airplane Art, Outside the Plaza Hotel

Paola Pivi sculpture, nyc Photo by myself at 60th Street and Fifth Avenue.

A kinetic sculpture was being installed at the southeast corner of Central Park, the other day.

By the artist Paola Pivi, the sculpture is composed of a real twin engine plane is suspended by its wingtips. When fully installed, the plane will spin around, doing somersaults (!).

The tall white building in the background is the Plaza Hotel. I will have to revisit very soon and take a photo of the plane when upside down!

The sculpture is sponsored by the Public Art Fund. For more about the sculpture and artist, see the Public Art Fund website, here.

Related posts: Giant Head, in Madison Square Park, Zodiac Heads, Outside the Plaza Hotel, and Outside the Elizabeth Street Gallery, in Soho.

5 comments:

Olivier said...

original, surtout un avion dans NYC, cela risque peut etre de rapeller de mauvais souvenirs

Washington Cesar Takeuchi said...

A view from the top of The Plaza must be awesome.

Banjo52 said...

I realize that sculpture took skill, effort, time, and there's some concept involved, but I can't warm to it--the way I did to your photo yesterday, a less happy subject, but so well-composed and interesting.

I might just check rates at the Plaza. I'll probably pass out.

RedPat said...

You will have to give us such a pic for sure!

San Patrick said...

Nice, the shots are nicely captured ... (really like a photographer). Thanks for sharing

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