Statue Scoop

This is the final sculpture from the Melvin Edward’s collection down in City Hall Park - Homage to Coco. Check it out before they pull the exhibit at the end of the month!

Song of the Broken Chains 2020
Welded stainless steel

Edwards has created a new, large-scale sculpture for this thematic survey of his public art from 1970 to today. Song of the Broken Chains focuses exclusively on the chain motif, which he has employed throughout his career for its formal qualities as well as its metaphorical potential. Many past works incorporate chains to evoke the brutality of racism and slavery, such as the wall-sculptures in Edwards’ early Lynch Fragment series, while others like Homage to Coco, also on view in this exhibition, allude to bonds of friendship and love that unite. The links in Song of the Broken Chains are monumental in scale, with broken fragments suggesting both liberation and rupture, and the artist’s title evoking a solemn yet hopeful song of redemption.

The Promise 1984:
Welded stainless steel

This sculpture has not been seen publicly since the early 1990s. It unites a welded chain column with three curved components to create a dynamic archway form on a human scale. The shimmer of the wire-brushed stainless steel is emblematic of a number of Edwards’ large-scale works on permanent view throughout New York City, including Passage, installed on the campus of Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. Edwards’ poetic titles add a layer of meaning that invites the viewer to find their own hopeful future through his forms.

Happy Independence Day! Here’s to getting back to normal. Stay safe out there!! 🙌🙌🙌

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I’m reposting this episode because they will be removing this statue soon. Come check it out before it is too late! This statue of Medusa flips the script on the myth!

Juan Pablo Duarte was a Dominican military leader, writer, activist, and nationalist politician who was the foremost of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic. He helped lead the Dominican Republic to independence from Haiti.

José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, the Patriarch of the Independence of Brazil - spoke 6 languages fluently and understood 11!

The Benito Juarez statue is the first statue of a Mexican on New York City public land and the first statue of an actual indigenous person in the city parks. 🇲🇽