Panorama

High Line Art presents an international outdoor group exhibition about vistas and vantage points both natural and manmade, featuring a series of sculptures and installations.

Kris Martin, <i>Altar</i>, 2014. Steel; approx. 14 feet (dimensions variable). Installation view, Oostende. Photo by Benny Proot. Courtesy the artist

Presented by Friends of the High Line, “Panorama” is an open-air exhibition that takes inspiration from the High Line as an urban park cutting straight through the city, creating new vistas and vantage points onto the surrounding natural and man-made landscapes.

The High Line is the stage for this series of sculptures and installations, all of which explore the act of seeing and understanding the spectacle of nature. The exhibition challenges historical notions of the sublime, quasi-religious experiences of “untouched” nature, and the debate on the manicured versus the ostensibly natural garden, opening up the possibility for experiencing nature in its necessarily human-impacted state.

Olafur Eliasson, <i>The Collectivity Project</i>, 2005. Installation view, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, 2006. Photo by Andreas Eggersten. Courtesy the artist — **Top**: Kris Martin, *Altar*, 2014. Steel; approx. 14 feet (dimensions variable). Installation view, Oostende. Photo by Benny Proot. Courtesy the artist. **Above**: Olafur Eliasson, *The Collectivity Project*, 2005. Installation view, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, 2006. Photo by Andreas Eggersten. Courtesy the artist

The artists in the exhibition – Mariana Castillo Deball, Olafur Eliasson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Ryan Gander, Kris Martin, Damián Ortega, Gabriel Sierra, Katrin Sigurdardóttir, Yutaka Sone, Kaari Upson, Andro Wekua – manipulate scale, perspective, and context in order to heighten our awareness of our surrounding environment and highlight our own place within it. Ranging from a miniature model of an Antarctic island to a larger-than-life bronze telescope, from an imaginary city built with more than two tons of LEGO pieces to the replica of a famous Flemish altarpiece, all of the works in the exhibition engage with the relationship in scale between the singularly human and the seemingly infinite immensity of nature.

Mariana Castillo Deball, Vista de Ojos, 2014. Set of 130, 18 mm. plywood plate incised with CNC router; 46 x 46 inches (118 x 118 cm) each. Exhibition view at kurimanzutto, Mexico City, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City

Ryan Gander, I is…(iii), 2012. Marble resin; 167 x 76 x 145 cm. Photo by Michel Claus. Courtesy the artist and Westreich/Wagner Collection

Yutaka Sone, Little Manhattan, 2007 – 2009. Marble, 21 3/4 x 104 3/8 x 33 1/2 inches (55 x 265 x 85 cm). Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London

Kaari Upson, Baby Please, 2012. Loveseat, charcoal, aqua-resin, fiberglass; 28 1/2 x 59 x 32 inches (72.4 x 149.9 x 81.3 cm). Courtesy the artist and Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London

April 23 – March 2016
Panorama
High Line Art
High Line, New York

Panorama

High Line Art presents an international outdoor group exhibition about vistas and vantage points both natural and manmade, featuring a series of sculptures and installations.

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