#CrossingBrooklyn features more than one hundred works from 35 artists who work in virtual

#CrossingBrooklyn features more than one hundred works from 35 artists who work in virtually every medium, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance, linked only by place and by an engagement with the modern world. Over the next several weeks, Brooklyn Magazine will be rolling out profiles of ten artists who appear in the exhibit.“The Commons, Paul Ramirez Jonas’s piece in Crossing Brooklyn, is a large cork sculpture of a horse, modeled on the one Marcus Aurelius is mounted on in a famous ancient Roman statue of the emperor. The transformation takes place on two planes of experience. The first is elemental and obvious: whereas the Roman statue is bronze and depicts imperial power in the form of the emperor, The Commons is made of cork, and the horse is riderless.The reasons for these choices explain the second, hidden transformation of meaning enacted by Jonas: whereas the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius encodes permanence, power, and remove, The Commons invites participation and plurality. ‘Cork is a material that can ‘publish’ an endless number of voices,’ Ramirez says. When we see cork, we want to approach it, pin something to it, puncture its surface. To facilitate this, the base of The Commons is covered with pushpins and blank notes; the audience is invited to write something on the notes, and pin them to the statue…" More on Paul Ramirez Jonas and his sculpture in #CrossingBrooklyn here.Photo: © Paul Ramirez Jonas, The Commons (2011) -- source link

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