¼ wo/man: Love–ego=Lov Couple.
Public art sculpture by Pavel (Pasha) Radetzki in the Civic Center of lower Manhattan.
Small Collect Pond/Federal Plaza, October 21-April 2025-26.
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Lov Couple is presented in partnership with 
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC Parks and New York Foundation For The Arts.
It is awarded the Creative Engagement Grant by LMCC supported by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and City Council.
Fiscally sponsored by NYFA, it is also supported by lov.foundation, ArtMax/Canal Street Studios & radetzki studiO.
Please make tax-deductible donations to our independent peace-building public artworks at nyfa.org or by writing here
The work's estimated budget is 50K.
Description
Lov Couple is a public art sculpture dedicated to innate human values of undivided love, unconditional peace, freedom, loss and regeneration.
Featuring two altered human figures, each missing the ¼ part of their upper torso, the works allude to humanity's shared sorrow and revival from world's military conflicts and in particular, to the ¼ population loss in artist’s native Paless’e marshlands region during WWII.
Carrying abstracted feminine and masculine characteristics the figures represent friends, partners, nuclear family and broader humanity.
The sculptures celebrate human vitality, resilience and ability to grow and thrive together—with joy, peace and unity—as individuals, species, nations, and communities.
Lov Couple will be activated by a multidisciplinary performance focused on the theme of unconditional peace (announced @ra_detzki).
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public art sculpture in Manhattan's Union Square Park by Pavel (Pasha) Radetzki
May 5 - Nov 5, 2024
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is an interactive public art site created in partnership with NYC Parks and Union Square Partnership by Pasha Radetzki studiO.
Composed of LOV Sculpture, 3 Sisters-Americas Garden and Unity On Union Square performance series, the work articulates the notions of attainable freedom, unity and interdependence of all human lives and nature.
Press >
'This work you are doing is really important in this moment of human condition.' Marina Abramović
‘Innovative, successful public exhibition, an asset to Art In The Parks program’ | NYC Parks
'a multimedia artist extraordinaire.' Raul Zamudio
'He makes hope visible' | Village Voice'Best outdoor art in NYC' | TimeOut New York
‘We love LOV… selected as the first public artwork to be displayed in Union Square’s center lawn' |Union Square Partnership
'All you need is L-O-V.' | New York Post
This new interactive sculpture in Union Square wants you to be part of it. | TimeOut New York
New Sculpture in Union Square promotes unity provides venue for public art. | 1010 WINS New York Radio
Special thanks to our partners:
New York City Parks
Union Square Partnership
The New York Foundation For The Arts (NYFA)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)
ArtMax & Andrew Logan Projects
lov.foundation
ArtYard LLC
radetzki_studiO
LOV Works Art Initiative this project is supported by The New York Foundation For The Arts' fiscal sponsorship. HEREA select group of artworks is available for sale HERE to support our public work
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LOV Sculpture site performances & public programming
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Inspired by the principles of reciprocity and elemental math equations, the Love-ego=LOV Sculpture Garden features a free-standing sculptural composition in Union Square Park which depicts a newly created word - LOV - a neologism with its specific meaning of egoless love and pronunciation, /lov/. The audience is invited to enact the eclipsed letter E, representing one’s self or ego, by striking ‘the letter E pose’ to the right of the sculpture to interplay the words LOV and ‘Love’.
3 Sisters-Americas garden is built-in into its structure featuring the plants native to the Americas. The title refers to the notion of ‘Abya Yala,’ a unified vitality continent in Kuna people's language.
The site is activated by Unity On Union Square performance series titled: Peace In All Languages, SunCultures Naturality, Huewomanity Founding Mothers and LOV In All Colors. The works experiment with conceiving of the new modes for community living, governing and human interrelations as well as build peacemaking narratives in public spaces.
Additional press:
Union Square debuts public art program with sculpture from Manhattan-based artist Pasha Radetzki |amNewYork
Why Union Square Park's LOV installation, has an ‘E' missing, explained | Times Now NewsArtist Pasha Radetzki: Love-ego=LOV | Christina Holmes PhotographyPasha RAdetzki creates the Love-ego=LOV in New York | Trend HunterNew ‘Love' sculpture in NYC is spelled without the ‘E' | Design TaxiMake Music New York Day in Union Square | amNewYorkWe accept commissions for sculpture (outdoor, garden, small scale), paintings, drawings and performances at: pashara[at]gmail[dot]com
You can also take a look at our awards-winning outdoor sculptures accomplished in Brazil > here
Sign up to our emails at pashara[at]gmail[dot]com or social media @ra_detzki and @LOVsculpture
Our special thanks to: NYC Parks & Elizabeth Masella, Union Square Partnership team, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Proyectos Raul Zamudio, family, Lilianka, Annie Murdock, Tom Soper, Alexandra Seaman, Lisa, Annie Yuan Zhang, Ignatius Chithelen, David Frackman, Kirsten Cole, Cristina Holmes, Yuko Arakawa, Amit Sahu, Orlando & Shirly Palacios, Caterina Verde & Peat and Repeat, Eva Conant, Ezra Wube, Kevin Nathaniel, Salieu Suso, Famoro Dioubate, Saco Myoji, Ishkara, Charlotte Douglass, Sylvain Leroux, Fernando Colón-González, Russo.
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Solo exhibition by pasha radetzki
Andrew Logan Projects
January 29 - March 15, 2025; opening: Saturday February 1, 6-8pm
384 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY; Thursday - Sunday 2pm-8pm
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Building upon the recent public art LOV Sculpture installation in Union Square Park in Manhattan, the exhibition examines what it means to love in current times of socio-ecological degradation.
Part of Love-ego=LOV work series, the exhibition spans architectural-sculptural installation, drawing, painting and performance to forefront the notions of attainable freedom, innate human knowledge and diverse social and spiritual reclamation from the mono-cultural worldview of the current status quo. The works also address the reconstruction processes in the world's post war-torn territories and the areas of ecological distress.
Performance: Peace Coconut. Social Cesspool Unrule. Date tba @ra_detzki
Exhibition support - Andrew Logan Projects, ArtMax, lov.foundation & radetzki studiO, New York Foundation For The Arts (nyfa.org),
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC).
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July 24th - August 18th, 2024; 78 Jane St., Manhattan; open Friday-Sunday, 12-6 pm
Opening: July 24th, 6-9 pm; performance: August 16, 7pm
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'a multimedia artist extraordinaire. the work beautifully harmonizes yet stands out against the park's flora and fauna; unbeknownst to the City of NY, it has become a kind of late night mecca for people..' Raul Zamudio
Solo exhibition by Pasha Radetzki of rarely exhibited maquettes, videos and works on paper related to his public art practice and LOV Sculpture currently on view in Union Square Park in Manhattan.
The exhibition traces the artist’s far-ranging works from early urban art interventions to the unique field artworks in ecologically significant remote locations, to the public art site in the heart of Manhattan.
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Public art performance with live sound and temporary installation
Federal Plaza and Union Square Park in Manhattan; October 2023
Unity On Union Square: Love-e=LOV
Conceived by Pasha Radetzki, presented in collaboration with Amit Sahu
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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 public art initiative titled Love-ego=LOV.
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