With these earrings, Carol Bove recreates the four light fittings that hang outside the David H. Koch Theater in New York. The building was originally called the New York State Theater; it was built as part of New York State’s participation in the 1964–65 World’s Fair and is owned by the City of New York. The building’s architect was Philip Johnson, who united neoclassicism and modernism and was famously inspired by Mies van der Rohe.
In collaboration with Kunsthalle Zürich and GEMS AND LADDERS.
Born in 1971, American artist Carol Bove makes work that illuminates the complex encounter that is experiencing art. For Bove, no material nor form is a given…