GRAMSCI MONUMENT

2012

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A WORK IN PUBLIC SPACE BY THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, PRODUCED BY DIA ART FOUNDATION NEW YORK
LOCATED AT FOREST HOUSES, THE BRONX - NEW YORK CITY, SUMMER 2013
"Every
human being
is an
Intellectual."
Antonio Gramsci


AMBASSADOR’S NOTE 16

The initiative to put black paper silhouettes of birds on the windows of the library and the exhibition marked the end of a daylong saga with a sparrow that took an unusual flight path and spent a couple hours looking for an escape route. We have seen our share of melodrama with the urban ecology starting with the wobbly squirrel that fell down from a tree during opening day or the dragonfly that overestimated the coolness of the newspaper editors. Architecture, like human presence, is a normative force that triggers stumbling appearances and arbitrary interactions with the animal and vegetable kingdom. But some solace can be taken from this hide-and-seek game, that is, that at the heart of the project of “co-existence” is both respect and care.


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