Pulse Park in Madison Square Park If the sight of falling leaves and the smell of fresh air make your heart beat faster, turn those pitter-patters into a personalized public art show with Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s interactive light installation Pulse Park. Two sculptures equipped with sensors will monitor visitors’ heart rates, then transmit the… Read more
October 8, 2008
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Lozano-Hemmer featured in New York Post
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer wants to take the pulse of the Big Apple. The international artist plans to set up two sensors that will transmit the heartbeats of visitors to 200 theatrical lights set in an oval shape in Madison Square Park. This “concert of heartbeats” will create a pulsating dance of shafts of light in the… Read more
October 1, 2008
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‘Tree Huts’ featured in The Architects Newspaper
Perched high above the lawns and promenades of Madison Square Park, Tadashi Kawamata’s Tree Huts brings a dose of ad-hoc architecture to an ever more manicured locale. Presented by Mad. Sq. Art, the public art program of the Madison Square Park Conservancy, the site-specific installation consists of 18 wooden huts installed in the canopy above… Read more
October 1, 2008
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Sculpture Highlights ‘Tree Huts’
Kawamata’s public installation, also known as ‘displacements,’ transforms the spaces they occupy, turning entire environments inside-out. Under his direction, complex and chaotic architectural growths of raw lumber, found objects, and building scraps bloom within the urban landscape. Playing on the cycle of construction and destruction that characterizes public space, his work attunes itself to a… Read more
September 24, 2008
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A Sneak Peak of ‘Tree Huts’ with The Daily News
Most children dream of a treehouse in the backyard. These treehouses will help adults dream, too. Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata is busy nailing together a dozen “Tree Huts,” high-up in Madison Square Park near E. 23rd St. and Broadway. His goal is to finish and open the wooden structures resembling children’s treehouses by Oct. 2…. Read more
September 23, 2008
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The Associated Press Highlights ‘Tree Huts’
A Manhattan park is getting a dozen tree houses perched high in its trees, courtesy of a Japanese artist known for his site-specific sculptural installations. Tadashi Kawamata arrived at Madison Square Park on Tuesday to begin constructing the tree huts. Forklifts, boom lifts, table saws, power drills and wood were spread around the 6.2-acre park… Read more
September 18, 2008
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‘Tree Huts’ Spotlighted by The New York Times
When “Tadashi Kawamata: Tree Huts” opens on Oct. 2, visitors to Madison Square Park will see a collection of small wooden structures tucked into the trees. To some, they may evoke childhood memories of hiding out in treehouses; to others, they may suggest flimsy shelters built by the homeless. Mr. Kawamata, the 55-year-old artist who… Read more
September 18, 2008
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Carol Vogel Features Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in The New York Times
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s light installations have been seen in places like Mexico City and Lyon, France; Dublin and Venice, where he represented his native Mexico at the 2007 biennale. Starting next month Mr. Lozano-Hemmer’s work will be seen by thousands of people in New York and then London. Every evening at dusk till about 10 p.m…. Read more
August 24, 2008
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‘Pulse Park’ Part of Fall Preview in New York Magazine
In Madison Square Park, Oct. 24–Nov. 17. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s 200 ground-level spotlights beat in tandem with the hearts of passersby. If the lights start to flutter, drop that Shake Shack burger and get to the ER, stat. Read full article at nymag.com Download full article
August 1, 2008
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Tadashi Kawamata Previewed in August Issue of Interior Design Magazine
If you find yourself in New York’s Madison Square Park from September 23 to October 2, be sure to look up. The park’s first artist in residence, Tadashi Kawamata, will be there to construct 18 pine tree huts. Simultaneous educational programs are planned down on the ground. Interior Design, August 2008 Download full article
