Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade has been selected to create a site-specific installation for The Met\u2019s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden.\u00a0The Roof Garden Commission: Alicja Kwade,\u00a0ParaPivot<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>will be on view from April 16 through October 27, 2019.<\/p>\n For the Roof Garden Commission, Kwade has created two sculptures:\u00a0ParaPivot I\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0II<\/em>. These towering sculptures consist of powder-coated steel frames that intersect at oblique angles. Nestled within are nine massive spheres that float in apparent weightlessness. The carved and polished stones, each with a unique color and intricate patterning, are all different types and come from nine different countries, including hermelin from Norway and azul macaubas from Brazil.\u00a0ParaPivot I\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0II\u00a0<\/em>are charged with the possibility of movement: their steel appendages, which fan outward around multiple axis points, seem to trace the orbital pathways of the globes. In this sense, they evoke an astrolabe, a scientific instrument invented in ancient Greece and adopted by Islamic astronomers in the medieval period to chart the trajectory of the stars and planets. Kwade\u2019s sculptural ballet also calls to mind a miniature solar system, a piece of outer space that has settled tempo\u00adrarily on the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden.<\/p>\n #CantorRoof<\/p>\n April 16\u2013October 27, 2019 Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade has been selected to create a site-specific installation for The Met\u2019s Iris and B. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[996,99,997,588],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9414,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions\/9414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe MET
\nThe Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof
\nGallery 926
\nNew York, United States<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"