EAST 127 STREET + MADISON AVENUE, 2016 (corner)
Concrete
Bringing the structures of the urban street into a gallery setting, the Street Corners investigate the idea of place. The artist has taken more than a meter high concrete casts of the exterior corners of buildings on street intersections in Harlem in New York, close to where he lives and works today.
Windows from left to right:
abbey in the oakwood 1810, 2016
drifting clouds 1820, 2016
two men contemplating the moon 1830, 2015
All works: Cast aluminum
Each work in this series is named after a painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. Instead of diminishing the interiority of the spaces they hang in by allowing us to see outside, Rondinone’s metal windows reinforce a sense of isolation from the external world and provoke a palpable sense of enclosure.
Photo © Andrea Rossetti