ANITA GLESTA

ANITA GLESTA

  • PROJECTS
    • WATERSHED Venice 2022
    • WATERSHED, 2013 (ongoing)
      • WATERSHED FOR PARRISH
      • WATERSHED FOR BASILICA
      • WATERSHED, RED HOOK BROOKLYN, 2017
      • WATERSHED, Customs House at Ellis Island, 2016 (Commissioned by Generation Investments)
      • WATERSHED, National Theatre, London, 2015 (Commissioned by Totally Thames Festival)
      • WATERSHED - Stills and Excerpts from Video
      • WATERSHED Installation for the New Museum's Ideas City Festival, 2013
    • PUTTI FOR SARA, 2012
    • SCHILLINGER AND THE DANCER, NYC, 2015
    • GERNIKA / GUERNICA, 2006-2013
      • Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University
      • Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, 2012
      • GUERNICA/GERNIKA, Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, 2007 (Commissioned by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council)
      • DESDE EL CIELO HASTA EL FONDO — White Box New York, 2007
    • US CENSUS BUREAU, Maryland, 2010 (Commissioned by General Services Administration)
    • CYCLE INTERRUPTED, Artport - Making Waves for Copenhagen Climate Change Summit, 2009
    • PEDAZOS, Black and White Gallery, New York, 2004
    • TRA, Chianti, Italy, 2001 (Commissioned by Chianti Sculpture Park)
    • AUSTRALIAN WORKS, 1997-2000
      • YURONG WATER GARDENS, Sydney, Australia, 2000 (Commissioned by Sydney City Council)
      • BED BATH BIRD, Sydney, Australia, 1998
      • LENTICULAR LENS, Sydney, Australia, 1998 (Commissioned by Sydney City Council)
      • ENTRE DOS AGUAS, Centennial Park, Sydney, Australia, 1997
      • ECHO OF FARADAY WOOD, Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia, 1997 (Commissioned by Art Gallery of New South Wales)
    • PUBLIC WORKS COMPILATION, 2000-2010
  • ANIMATIONS
  • SCULPTURE/VIDEO INSTALLATION
    • SKIN DEEP, multimedia, 2022
    • SUM OF THE PARTS REDUX, multimedia, 2022
    • HEADS AND HEARTS, 2019
    • INTERSECTION, International Art & Culture, Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, 2018
    • ANTHOPODENIAL, 2017
    • REVERIE, Satellite Art Fair, 2016
    • SPIN, 2015
    • I SAW NOTHING BUT I KNEW YOU WERE THERE, 2014
    • HAY ROLL, 2013
    • UNIVERSE UNTOLD, 2012
    • SELF PLATTER, 2012
    • WING, 2011
    • SINK HOLE, 2010
    • PAVER WINDOW, 2010
    • EXPULSION, 2009
  • WORKS ON PAPER
    • RECENT WORKS ON PAPER
    • THE HEART SERIES (Works on paper and 3-channel monitor installation)
    • Ink on Paper
    • Archival Prints of Video Stills
    • THE FISH SERIES (Works on paper and canvas)
  • ABOUT
  • NEWS
  • EVENTS
    • WATERSHED Venice biennale 2022
    • Video Artwork commission in Federal Square Plaza, Melbourne, Australia, "Big Anxiety Festival, 2022"
    • CARDIAC HARMONIUM and other recent works installed in show at Lehman College Art Gallery
    • Basilica Conversation Series: Artists Mary Mattingly and Anita Glesta
    • The impact of Covid-19 on artists, part 4: artistic responses to the coronavirus and the prescient zeitgeist: April 16th, 2020 Studio International
    • In conversation with Anita Glesta: April 14th, 2020 Womenwecreate
    • Art comes to you: April 2nd, 2020 Studio international
    • APRIL 7, 2018 Arts Council of Princeton
    • NYFA - WATERSHED 2017
    • ART W - WATERSHED 2017
    • HYPERALLERGIC
    • JULY 15, 2016 ArtOMI SCULPTURE PARK, GHENT, NY, Panel Discussion, Women in Public Art
    • APRIL 2016 WATERSHED at Customs House at Ellis Island
    • JANUARY 2016 LEAD ESSAY in newly published book: DEVELOPING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN URBAN PUBLIC ART PROGRAMS
    • OCTOBER 2015 INTIMATE TRANSGRESSIONS White Box, NYC
    • SEPTEMBER 2015 Interview with Yale University Radio
    • SEPTEMBER 2015 Public Art Projection - WATERSHED at the Royal National Theatre, London
  • CONTACT
Facing one another in a forest glade in a sculpture park in Chianti, Italy, this permanent installation uses the indigenous materials of the area to create a work which celebrates the tranquil site. The forms invite the viewer to have a quiet repose within the sculptures by insinuating themselves as oversized “lounges”.

The travertine “lounge” is twenty-one feet high (approx. 7m) and follows the slope of the hill which it is carved into. The striped marble “lounge” is approximately seven feet high (a little more than 2m) and follows the steeper slope of the hill and also invites the viewer to recline within.

The travertine and marble were quarried locally using the same source which was used centuries before the construction of the Duomo in Florence. The work draws humorous reference to the art history of the area which is the cradle of the renaissance.

Site specific installation, 2001. Chianti Sculpture Park, Chianti, Italy. Travertine and marble, dimensions variable





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