Madison Square Park Conservancy to Receive Prestigious U.S. Art Critics Association Award

Antony Gormley, EVENT HORIZON, 2007, 27 fiberglass and 4 cast iron figures, Each 189 x 53 x 29 cm, Photograph by James Ewing, © The Artist, A Hayward Gallery Commission, Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York and White Cube, London, Event Horizon New York presented by Madison Square Park Conservancy.

NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art, will receive the International Art Critics Association(AICA-USA) Second Place award for Best Project in a Public Space for the organization’s exhibition Antony Gormley: Event Horizon, which was presented in and around Madison Square Park from March 23 – August 15, 2010 in New York City. The award will be presented at an event at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on March 14, 2011. Event Horizon marked the United States public art debut of renowned British sculptor Antony Gormley, as well as the first time Mad. Sq. Art had exhibited public artwork outside the park’s boundaries. In the exhibition, thirty-one life-size body forms of the artist fabricated in cast iron and molded fiberglass were installed on park pathways, surrounding sidewalks, and the rooftops and setbacks of iconic buildings surrounding Madison Square Park and stretching from Union Square to the Empire State Building. Read more