New sculptures by the German-Iranian artist Nairy Baghramian will adorn the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of NY until May 2024, as announced by the center.
Baghramian, who was born in Iran in 1971 and fled to Berlin with his family in 1984, designed four sculptures abstract and colorful aluminum panels for the four niches on the façade.
The works are his “tribute to New York”Baghramian said. He dedicates them to
“Pedestrians and commuters who take the bus to work and barely get a glimpse of the construction.”
Baghramian is the fourth artist whose works occupy the four niches of the façade of the famous Central Park museum. Although the spaces were left free for sculpture when the museum was built, they were not first used with works of art until almost 120 years later.
In 2019, the American artist of Kenyan origin Wangechi Mutu He installed four different bronze sculptures there inspired by the customs of African women.
Since then, every year a different artist exhibits his works commissioned by the museum except in 2020, when the exhibition was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.
2023-09-09 21:50:00
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