USE is the point here; how this place is used. River, housing project, skyline, black neighborhood, Hell Gate currents, industrial area, wasteland: sculpture park \u2014 the site, the situation, the sculpture. (All specific, all detailed, all complicated and confusing.) Two years ago this was a trash dump unused; now it’s a sculpture park \u2014 still a dump \u2014 but USED.<\/p>\n
Used for work, used for play, used for art. USE IS THE POINT; use by neighbors, use by artists, use by visitors, and use by the sculpture itself. For strong sculpture USES its site, too; strong sculpture pushes its space, pulls it, stretches it up or out, changes it: uses it.<\/p>\n
Strong sculpture MAKES the place it ends up in; it does not just visit it. It USES it in order to make it.<\/p>\n
Strong sculpture CHANGES SPACE TO PLACE, and changes its USE for us.
\nCatalogue
\nView ‘Torn’ in the exhibition catalogue ‘https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/digital\/2014-fact-of-the-matter\/” Fact of the Matter’ online https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/digital\/2014-fact-of-the-matter\/” HERE\u00a0 A print version is not available.<\/p>\n
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