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Giulia Cenci’s Secondary Forest on the High Line

giulia cenci secondary forest photo by gail worley
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Artist Giulia Cenci  (born 1988, Corona, Italy) creates elaborate installations that invite viewers to question their relationship with nature. Her work features animals, plants, and human appendages cast from melted-down scrap metal, reusing found objects, agricultural tools, old machinery, and car parts. These disparate elements are then hung, suspended, or pieced together, morphing into a wild habitat, void of hierarchy.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Charles Ray, Tractor

charles ray tractor photo by gail worley
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Charles Ray’s sculptures are often loosely patterned on pre-existing ideas and things. Such is the case with Tractor (2005), which takes as its point of departure a boyhood memory and, more directly, an abandoned vintage tractor found in the San Fernando Valley, California.

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