Love-ego=LOV Sculpture (Garden)
Public art sculpture by Pasha Radetzki in Union Square Park
May 5th - November 5th 2024; with activation performances
The LOV Sculpture articulates the notions of egoless love, unity and interdependence of human lives placed within the context of contemporary volatile social and ecological conditions.
Its structure is composed of three interlocked letters that spell out a newly created word LOV - the neologism with its specific meaning and pronunciation, /lɔv/.
The sculpture features a miniature ‘Three Sisters-Americas' art garden of plants native to North, Central and South Americas.
It also serves as a public site for a series of performances on the themes of: U.N.I.T.Y. On Union Square; Mir/Peace In All Languages; LOV In All Colors.
NYC Parks and Union Square Partnership commissioned the work and emphasized its public significance by allocating it a prominent exhibiting site between the Abraham Lincoln statue and the U.S. Independence Monument and an extended six months exhibition time.
The LOV Sculpture is fiscally sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts and as a non-for-profit public artwork, it can receive tax-deductible donation HERE
In 2023, the related public artwork was awarded a Creative Engagement grant from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and City Council (information below).
A group of LOV Sculpture-related works are available for sale HERE to support this project.
You can also take a look at my award-winning sculptures accomplished in Brazil here
I accept commissions for sculpture (outdoor, garden, small scale), paintings, drawings and performances at: pashara[at]gmail[dot]com
You can sign up for announcements at pashara[at]gmail[dot]com and follow me on social media @ra_detzki and @LOVsculpture
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Recent work that is also part of Love-ego=LOV series.
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Unity On Union Square: Love-e=LOV
Public art performance with live sound and temporary installation
Federal Plaza and Union Square Park in Manhattan; October 2023
Conceived by Pasha Radetzki, presented in collaboration with Amit Sahu.
Comprising original musical compositions, performance art and temporary sculptural installation, the Unity On Union Square live art presentations engage the public with the themes of peace, unity and urban and natural regeneration.
The Federal Plaza performances are conceived as the urban field artworks where the topics of local water source, peace and egoless LOV coalesce to reflect on the storied history of the Collect Pond, one of the city’s original fresh water sources, its decline and current conditions.
The Union Square Park’s performance is devised as a community celebration of the neighborhood and its vitality as the place where all people naturally come together. It juxtaposes the themes of social harmony and unending wars, which are often inflicted by monocultural/militant aspects of widely accepted patriarchal ideologies.
Unity On Union Square received a Creative Engagement Grant from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in 2023.
It is part of Radetzki's on-going art initiative titled Love-ego=LOV which includes public art sculpture in the Union Square Park, an exhibition and a book publication.
Pls., note that video documentation with sound will be uploaded here soon. For excerpts, refer to > @ra_detzki
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