Public Installation
Harold Ancart
Subliminal Standard
May 1, 2019–March 1, 2020
Cadman Plaza Park, New York
www.publicartfund.org
Commissioned by Public Art Fund, Harold Ancart has created this painted concrete sculpture as an homage to the accidental abstract compositions that appear on New York City’s ubiquitous freestanding handball walls. Fascinated by seemingly quotidian found forms and patterns, Ancart sees the mismatched repainting and partial repairs that mask graffiti and other wear on these courts as “subliminal,” inadvertent masterpieces and relishes their fortuitous connection to the canon of abstract art.
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Harold Ancart, Subliminal Standard, 2019, installation view, Cadman Plaza Park, New York © Harold Ancart. Photo: Nicholas Knight
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