mixed media

Target Art in the Park
 
May 31, 2001 - September 30, 2001

Madison Square Park

Tobias Rehberger's Tsutsumu N.Y. was a scenic Japanese garden that merged landscape, art, and an unnatural weather pattern to create a surprising installation. A bench set next to a rock and tree formed a Japanese garden, with snow falling mysteriously on the serene area. Amidst melting snow, park visitors sat within Tsutsumu N.Y.'s utopian setting, where the temperature was cool after each day's summertime snowstorm. Rehberger's unusual version of a traditional rock garden provided an intimate public space different from the local plants and trees.

Artist Bio
Tobias Rehberger was born in 1966 in Esslingen, Germany. He studied art at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Frankfurt am Main. Rehberger has developed an intriguing new realm of social sculpture in such diverse realms as garden design, furniture, and knitting. He has exhibited work at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Münster Sculpture Project, Germany; Venice Biennale, Italy; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Guggenheim Museum, Berlin; and Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany. Rehberger lives and works in Frankfurt.

Sponsorship
This exhibition was the second of a three-year public art program called Target Art in the Park, organized by the Public Art Fund on behalf of the City Parks Foundation and sponsored by Target Stores.
 
 

Location
Madison Square Park is located on Madison Avenue between 23rd and 25th Streets. Tsutsumu N.Y. was installed on the east side of the park.