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The World is Round features new commissions and recent works by Jacob Dyrenforth, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Chris Hanson & Hendrika Sonnenberg, Matt Johnson, and Ryan McGinness, all of whom have created works that explore collective consciousness and expression. Although the artists work in a variety of media and thematic areas, their practices are all linked by an interest in shared languages and systems, whether personal or political, formal or informal.
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Jacob Dyrenforth – Stand-Ins for the All-Time Greatest
Stand-Ins for the All-Time Greatest resembles a rock concert in the moments just before a show, when guitars are tuned and propped on stands until the band arrives onstage. Using the most minimal visual clues, Dyrenforth creates a work that explores the universal appeal of rock-and-roll culture.
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Diana Guerrero-Maciá – The Beautiful Game in Black and White
The Beautiful Game in Black and White explores the ways in which soccer has become a universal language understood and "spoken" by billions of people around the world. The work depicts a flattened and scaled up soccer ball, rendered in vinyl on aluminum.
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Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg – Soapbox
Soapbox is a cast aluminum depiction of a trio of soapboxes, venerating the most valued cultural ideal, freedom of speech, with a monument that could also serve as a functional speaking platform.
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Matt Johnson – 4eva
Johnson's 4eva is a large, three-ton boulder of ancient pre-Cambrian granite, flecked with what appear to be quartz veins. Expanding upon the age-old graffitist's impulse, 4eva is an instance of personal mark-making cleverly masquerading as a natural occurrence.
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Ryan McGinness – Equo ne Credite, Teucri
McGinness's installation, Equo ne Credite, Teucri ("Do not trust the horse, Trojans!"), comprises a set of signs placed throughout the MetroTech Commons. The signs are a series of eye-catching but cryptic images imbued with personal meaning.
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Sponsorship
The World Is Round at MetroTech Center is part of an ongoing program organized by the Public Art Fund and sponsored by MetroTech Commons Associates, an organization that consists of MetroTech companies Bear Stearns & Company, Forest City Ratner Companies, JPMorganChase, KeySpan, and Polytechnic University.
Special thanks to Forest City Ratner Companies and First New York Partners.
Location
MetroTech Center is located in Downtown Brooklyn between Jay Street and Flatbush Avenue at Myrtle Avenue.
Viewing hours are dawn to dusk daily for outdoor works, Monday through Friday 8am to 6pm for Jacob Dyrenforth's installation in the lobby of One MetroTech.
Subway: A, C, F to Jay Street/Borough Hall, exit at Myrtle Promenade; R to Lawrence Street; Q to Dekalb Avenue.
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