SculptureCenter to Host Reception for Alejandro Cesarco Tonight
By: BWW News Desk Jun. 27, 2017
SculptureCenter is pleased to present Words Like Love: Alphaville, First Scenes by Alejandro Cesarco, on view through July 2, at the intersection of Jackson Avenue and Queens Plaza in Long Island City.
Public Reception: Tuesday, June 27, 2017, 6-8pmSculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, NY 11101 Words Like Love: Alphaville, First Scenes is installed on a 14-by-48 foot billboard in Long Island City. The work is a textual interpretation of the opening scene of filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965), an iconic science fiction/noir film that describes a futuristic dystopian society controlled by a supercomputer. Through its prominent placement over a busy intersection in Queens, the billboard points to how texts mediate public space and social life while locating critical and resistant capacities in the acts of reading and interpretation. Cesarco's project is the second artwork commissioned through SculptureCenter's art education program Public Process. Public Process is an annual summer intensive program for high school students that explores New York City's rich public art landscape to discuss the history and impact of public art and its community influence.
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