Public Art Fund (Venue Partner)
Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park
60th St & 5th Ave
212.223.7800
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Michael Sailstorfer, "Tornado" (2011). Photo: Liz Ligon
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Sep 20, 2011 – Feb 19
Daily (6am–9pm)
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Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It combines lightness and weight, with looming black "clouds" made from inflated truck tire inner tubes that gently shift in the breeze. Its muscular steel armature zigzags from top to bottom while the ballooning rubber forms that hang in bunches from its spiraling arms are knotted together in bulging clusters. Like a tornado, which is violently powerful but also literally made of air, Sailstorfer's towering work provides a visceral experience of sculptural form and materials in tension, massive but also vulnerable.
