To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom
构建公共领域。
既沉思又挑衅，《To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom》是墨西哥艺术家Jose Dávila为波士顿创作的一个新的体验式雕塑作品，以回应我们的时代和波士顿市中心独特的树木空间。由21个定制的混凝土形状组成，这些形状是标准立方体的变化，顶部平衡着河流巨石，这是《To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom》创造的一个充满活力的红色几何形状的动态领域，并与自然并置，突出了中央码头公园。该作品有意邀请公众在雕塑造型上坐下、休息和玩耍，探索了社交和物理距离时期的公共性，并鼓励路人和游客自行决定装置的功能和目的。通过提供关于新的建筑模式和创新场所创造可能性的想法，该项目旨在展示艺术如何将创造力的中心转移到公共领域。
参观
《To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom》将在马萨诸塞州波士顿大西洋大道250号新英格兰水族馆对面的中央码头公园向公众开放。
最近的MBTA站是蓝线上的水族馆站。
Jose Dávila
Jose Dávila的作品源自艺术史和西方视觉文化中的象征语言。这些图像、图形和雕塑语言被重新配置为矛盾和对比的关系，将形式和内容之间的对应发挥到极致。
艺术家通过不同的视角来表现这些对立：图像与文字之间的关联；结构：材料的结构配置，它可能带来和谐平衡或混乱；外围路线的使用，以确定建筑空间和物体的存在。Dávila的作品本质上是一个多学科的努力，呈现了一系列材料和视觉上的矛盾，这些矛盾允许脆弱和抵抗、休息和紧张、几何秩序和随机混乱共存。
参与策划
吸引公众活动
《To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom》是Now and There与客座策展人佩德罗·阿朗佐的第二次合作，后者在2019年至2020年期间将奥斯卡·图阿佐的《成长环》带到中央码头公园。
佩德罗·阿朗佐是波士顿的一位独立策展人。他目前是达拉斯当代美术馆的助理馆长。自2006年以来，他专注于制作超越博物馆墙壁边界的展览，延伸到城市景观中，面向传统博物馆公众之外的观众。在ICA波士顿，他策划了Shepard Fairey的20年调查，《供应与需求》。在圣地亚哥MCA博物馆，他组织了群展“Viva la Revolución：与城市景观的对话”，展出了博物馆内和圣地亚哥市中心的特定地点作品。2015年，Alonzo开始开发旨在吸引公众的展览，首先在费城举办了一场全市范围的展览，名为“开源：吸引公众参与公共空间”，随后与JR合作，在特卡特放置了一幅名为Kikito的巨大墨西哥儿童图像，俯瞰美国/México边境墙。自2016年以来，Alonzo与马萨诸塞州最大的保护和保护非营利组织受托人合作，发起并策划了该组织的第一个艺术与景观计划，由艺术家Sam Durant(2016)、Jeppe Hein(2016)、Alicja Kwade(2018)和Doug Aitken(2019)创建了特定地点的委员会。他目前正在研究健忘症Atómica，这是佩德罗·雷耶斯(Pedro Reyes)受《原子科学家公报》(Bulletin of Atomic Scientist)委托开展的一个正在进行的项目，旨在将核威胁问题重新引入公众叙事。
与朋友一起建造
特别感谢BRM生产管理帮助N+T, Dávila，和Alonzo带来这个项目的生活!
拥抱场地
中央码头公园由剑桥景观建筑事务所Reed Hilderbrand设计，是一座由24棵成熟橡树组成的城市微型森林，坐落在波士顿市中心大西洋大道250号的新英格兰水族馆和玫瑰肯尼迪绿道之间。公园有斜坡入口，也有台阶入口，用鹅卵石铺成。工作地点遍布公园。《To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom》旨在探索我们共同拥有的公众经验和公众创造力在塑造建筑环境方面的新层面。随着艺术作品的呈现，Now and There继续引导和参与口头和书面的公共对话，探索创造了我们今天所看到的波士顿的事件、政策和态度的数百年历史。
人们在说什么
波士顿社区网络新闻:公共艺术重塑的公园，2020年11月20日
“当年轻人被它所吸引，理解它，并参与其中时，孩子们是非常真实的。他们只会被自己信仰的东西所吸引。让他们感到舒服，感到兴奋。所以这是成功的标志。”
GBH艺术本周与Jared Bowen: Jose的新公共艺术装置Dávila，由Now + There于2020年11月19日在中央码头公园展出
“游客被鼓励坐在上面与作品互动(同时保持安全的社交距离)，Dávila认为他在整个装置中使用的石头与我们的人性有关，因为在整个人类历史过程中，文明都依赖它们。”
艺术日报:何塞Dávila重新想象中央码头公园，在大流行隔离期间将社区聚集在一起，2020年11月16日
“这件作品有意邀请公众坐在雕塑形状上，休息和玩耍，探索社交和物理距离时期的公共性，并鼓励路人和游客自行决定位于波士顿市中心大西洋大道250号的装置的功能和目的。”
WBZ电台:2020年11月15日星期日，新英格兰周末。
“这确实需要我们作为公众来定义这个空间。”
WBUR/动脉:本周末要做的5件事，2020年11月12日
“不需要购买博物馆门票，也不需要避开人群。只要去新英格兰水族馆对面的中央码头公园，就能看到波士顿最新的养眼之物。”
To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom
Constructing the public realm.
Both meditative and provocative, To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom. is a new experiential sculptural work created for Boston by Mexican artist Jose Dávila in response to our times and to a uniquely arboreal space in Downtown Boston. Composed of 21 custom-made concrete shapes that are variations of a standard cube with river boulders balancing on top, To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom., creates a dynamic field of vibrant red-colored geometric forms with natural juxtapositions that punctuate and accentuate Central Wharf Park. The work, which intentionally invites the public to sit, rest, and play on and among the sculptural shapes, explores publicness in a time of social and physical distancing and encourages passers-by and visitors to decide for themselves the function and purpose of the installation. By offering ideas on new modes of construction and innovative placemaking possibilities, this project aims to demonstrate ways art can shift centers of creative power into the public realm.
VISIT
To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom. will be on view to the public at Central Wharf Park across from the New England Aquarium at 250 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA.
The closest MBTA Stop is the Aquarium stop on the Blue Line.
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Jose Dávila
Jose Dávila’s work originates from the symbolic languages that function within art history and Western visual culture. These pictorial, graphic and sculptural languages are reconfigured as contradictory and contrasting relations, taking the correspondence between form and content to its limit.
The artist represents these oppositions through different perspectives: the association between images and words; the structural disposition of materials which entails the possibility of a harmonious balance or disarray; the use of peripheral routes in order to define architectural space and the presence of objects. Dávila’s work is essentially a multidisciplinary endeavor that presents a series of material and visual aporias, these paradoxes permit the coexistence of frailty and resistance, rest and tension, geometric order and random chaos.
Image courtesy of the artist; Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona; and Travesía Cuatro, Madrid. Photo: Juan Riobó © 2017
Image courtesy of the artist; Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona; and Travesía Cuatro, Madrid.
Photo: Juan Riobó © 2017
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Curated for Engagement
Engaging the public
To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom. is Now + There’s second collaboration with guest curator Pedro Alonzo who brought Oscar Tuazon’s Growth Rings to Central Wharf Park from 2019 to 2020.
Pedro Alonzo is a Boston-based independent curator. He is currently an Adjunct Curator at Dallas Contemporary. Since 2006 he has specialized in producing exhibitions that transcend the boundaries of museum walls and spill out into the urban landscape, addressing audiences beyond the traditional museum public. At the ICA Boston, he curated Shepard Fairey’s 20-year survey, Supply, and Demand. For the MCA San Diego, he organized the group exhibition Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, which featured site-specific works inside the museum and throughout downtown San Diego. In 2015 Alonzo began to develop exhibitions designed to engage the public, starting with a citywide exhibition in Philadelphia, Open Source: Engaging Audiences in Public Space, followed by working with JR to place a gigantic image of a Mexican child named Kikito, overlooking the US/México border wall in Tecate. Since 2016 Alonzo has worked with The Trustees, Massachusetts’s largest conservation and preservation non-profit, to launch and curate the organization’s first Art and the Landscape initiative, resulting in site-specific commissions created by the artists: Sam Durant (2016), Jeppe Hein (2016), Alicja Kwade (2018), and Doug Aitken (2019). He is currently working on Amnesia Atómica, an ongoing project by Pedro Reyes, commissioned by The Bulletin of Atomic Scientist, centered to revive and reintroduce the issue of nuclear threat into the public narrative.
Building with friends
Special thanks to BRM Production Management for helping N+T, Dávila, and Alonzo bring this project to life!
Embracing the site
Designed by Reed Hilderbrand, a Cambridge-based landscape architecture practice, Central Wharf Park is an urban micro-forest composed of 24 mature oak trees and sits between the New England Aquarium and the Rose Kennedy Greenway at 250 Atlantic Avenue in Downtown Boston. The park has ramped entry points as well as step up curb entries and is paved in cobblestones. The work is sited throughout the park. As To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom. seeks to explore new dimensions of our shared public experience and public creative power in shaping the built environment. Along with the presentation of the artwork, Now + There continues to lead and engage in public conversations, verbal and written, exploring the centuries-long history of the events, policies, and attitudes that have created the Boston we see today.
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What People Are Saying
Boston Neighborhood Network News: Park Reframed by Public Art, November 20, 2020
“When young people gravitate to it, and understand it, and engage it — kids are very authentic. They only gravitate to things that they believe in. That they feel comfortable with, excited about. So this is a sign of success.”
GBH Arts This Week with Jared Bowen: A new public art installation by Jose Dávila, presented by Now + There at Central Wharf Park, November 19, 2020
“Visitors are encouraged to sit on and interact with the work (while still maintaining a safe, social distance), and Dávila sees the stones he employs throughout the installation as tied to our humanity, given civilizations’ reliance on them throughout the course of human history.”
Art Daily: Jose Dávila reimagines Central Wharf Park to bring community together in time of pandemic isolation, November 16, 2020
“The work, which intentionally invites the public to sit, rest, and play, on and among the sculptural shapes, explores publicness in a time of social and physical distancing and encourages passers-by and visitors to decide for themselves the function and purpose of the installation located at 250 Atlantic Avenue in Downtown Boston.”
WBZ Radio: New England Weekend, Sunday, November 15, 2020.
“It does call for us as a public to define the space.”
WBUR/The ARTery: 5 Things to Do This Weekend November 12, 2020
“No need for purchasing a museum ticket or fighting off crowds. Just head to Central Wharf Park across from the New England Aquarium to see Boston’s newest eye candy.”
