Santiago Calatrava: On Park Avenue

SANTIAGO CALATRAVA ON PARK AVENUE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Grateful acknowledgment is due to the many individuals who made this exhibition a success. I would like to thank all those involved at the Grand Central Partnership; the Fund for Park Avenue; and the New York City Parks Department, with a special thanks to Jennifer Lantzas, Public Arts Coordinator. I would also like to thank the curator, Dale Lanzone, working in collaboration with the artist in the development of the exhibition. The installation of this exceptional exhibition of monumental sculpture was due to the expertise of Auer’s Moving and Rigging and Pinwheel Inc. Lastly, the warmest thanks to the artist Santiago Calatrava, and all those who work alongside him in his New York and Zurich offices.

Pierre Levai President, Marlborough Gallery, New York

SANT IAGO C AL AT RAVA

ON PARK AVENUE June 8th through mid-November, 2015

40 WEST 57TH STREET NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019 212 541 4900 MARLBOROUGHGALLERY.COM

Sculpture 1 1 Sculpture

On Park Avenue “In a way, I’m a typical New 18'-0" Yorker — somebody who 18'-0" loves New York and who is not from here.”

— Santiago Calatrava

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Sculpture 1 1 Sculpture 36'-6" xx 8'-8" 8'-8" xx 18'-0" 18'-0" 36'-6"

Sculpture 2 2 Sculpture

16'-5" xx 1'-4" 1'-4" xx 14'-11" 14'-11" 16'-5"

Sculpture 3 3 Sculpture

12'-10" xx 1'-3" 1'-3" xx 15'-0" 15'-0" 12'-10"

Sculpture 4 4 Sculpture

36'-0" xx 10'-0" 10'-0" xx 10'-1" 10'-1" 36'-0"

Sculpture 5 5 Sculpture

16'-6" xx 4'-11" 4'-11" xx 14-7" 14-7" 16'-6"

Sculpture 6 6 Sculpture

28'-5" xx 14'-7" 14'-7" xx 11'-0" 11'-0" 28'-5"

Sculpture 7 7 Sculpture

17'-9" xx 2'-5" 2'-5" xx 17'-9" 17'-9" 17'-9"

Beginning in the 1950s, The Fund for Park Avenue made a commitment to assist in the beautification of Manhattan by planting trees and flowers along the Park Avenue meridians. This dedication to the beautification and cultural enhancement of Park Avenue expanded to include public art in 1993 with the inaugural exhibition of fourteen Fernando Botero sculptures exhibited along the meridians from 54th to 61st Street. Since then, The Fund for Park Avenue in partnership with the New York City Parks Department has continued to sponsor temporary monumental sculpture exhibitions yearround from 49th Street to 68th Street. The exhibitions provide artists with the opportunity to present sculpture to wider audiences, allowing for the works to be experienced in a diverse environment – among plants, buildings, and traffic, and 14'-11" beyond the confines of a museum. The partnership has facilitated major works of art by significant living artists including 15'-0" 14'-11" 15'-0" Alice Aycock, Robert Indiana, Beverly Pepper, Tom Otterness, and Manolo Valdés, and has influenced the development of similar public art programs in cities around the world, cementing the international significance of Park Avenue as a venue for monumental sculpture.

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12'-10" 16'-5" 12'-10" 1'-3" 1'-3" 1'-4" 1'-4" It is this reputation that caught the interest of renowned artist, architect, and engineer Santiago Calatrava, who has

followed 36'-6" the exhibition cycles on Park Avenue for many years. Building on the achievements made with his early public 36'-6" works, including SMU Meadows Museum Wave Sculpture, Shadow Machine, Oriente Station, and the Peace Bridge, Calatrava was captivated by the opportunity to create new works for such an intensely dynamic and challenging public space.

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In preparation for the exhibition, the artist analyzed how the sculptures would relate to the scale and verticality of the adjacent buildings, as well as the visual impact of the intense pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Calatrava notes, “New York is an enormous city and so vital, but you see, we hear the noise…we see the colors, and the facades, and the people moving, and the cars moving, and I wanted a little bit to catch this energy into the14'-7" sculptures.”

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The sculptures began on paper, as drawings or watercolors, before being sculpted into small wooden models. Each angle 36'-0" and proportion was perfected by hand, until the final steps of the fabrication. Specific attention has been paid to the color 36'-0" 16'-6" 10'-0" and scale of each work; the undulating arc of the sculptures is intended to offer contrasting the strict grid4'-11" relief from 16'-6" 10'-0" 4'-11" form of the city, while the colors, black, silver, and what Calatrava refers to as ‘American Red,’ articulate the contrasting relationship with the buildings that surround them. The artist explains:

Sculpture 7 7 Sculpture Sculpture 6 Sculpture “There is not a single6 vertical in the sculptures because the city here is so straight, going up...Like the trees, like

flowers, like a trunk getting thinner, thinner, thinner, until the last leaf…They share the same type [of] research and the same type of understanding. Even the choice of the shine is very much related to the environment in this case, not so much the buildings as the cars, [which] are a little bit shiny; yellow cars and cops and all that.

We learn a lot from the place, you see, from this particular place.”

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15'-0" 15'-0" While other artists have exhibited more works, Calatrava decided to create only seven sculptures along three streets to

better convey, as he puts it, the “vibrancy of the city with the practicality of the human city.” The sculptures reflect the energized environment of Park Avenue with its synthesis of nature, people, cars, and buildings. In this respect, Park 28'-5" 17'-9" Avenue is a most fitting venue for an artist, architect, and engineer to present such original work.

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2'-5" 2'-5"

“A sculpture has only one purpose: the purpose of being itself —

showing the beauty of the harmony with the natural or the environment, or our relationship with that environment.”

– Santiago Calatrava

S5, 2015 painted, welded plate aluminum 432 x 120 x 121 in., 1097.28 x 304.80 x 307.34 cm

S4, 2015 painted, welded plate aluminum 432 x 120 x 121 in., 1097.28 x 304.80 x 307.34 cm (above, detail)

S3, 2015 painted, welded plate aluminum and stainless steel 154 x 15 x 180 in., 391.16 x 38.10 x 457.20 cm

S1, 2015 painted, welded plate aluminum 402 x 104 x 216 in., 1021.28 x 264.16 x 548.84 cm

“The scale of the buildings and the scale of the sculptures are so enormously different, but through the colors and the proximity to the people, they became an identity.”

– Santiago Calatrava

S2, 2015 painted, welded plate aluminum and stainless steel 197 x 18 x 179 in., 500.38 x 45.72 x 454.66 cm

S7, 2015 painted, welded plate aluminum 213 x 29 x 213 in., 541.02 x 73.66 x 541.02 cm

S6, 2015 painted, welded plate aluminum 341 x 175 x 132 in., 866.14 x 444.50 x 335.28 cm

SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

2002

Leonardo da Vinci Medal, SEFI, Brussels, Belgium

1951

The Sir Misha Black Medal, The Royal College of Art, London, UK

2004

Gold Medal, Queen Sofía Spanish Institute,

New York, New York

2005

AIA Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects, Washington DC

2006

ESCN European Award for Excellence in Concrete (for the Turning Torso Tower and for Liége-Guillemins High Speed Railway Station)

Premio Nacional de Arquitectura, Ministerio de Fomento, Madrid, Spain

Sidney L. Strauss Award, New York Society of Architects, New York, New York

Leadership Award, New York Building Congress, New York, New York

Premio Nacional de Ingeniería Civil, Ministerio de Fomento, Madrid, Spain

2007

Urban Visionaries Award, The Cooper Union Award for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York

Premio Nacional de Arquitectura, Ministerio de Fomento, Madrid, Spain

2010

Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC

2011

Certificate of Brevet Wallonie, Government of the Walloon Region, Belgium

Membro del Pontificio Consiglio della Cultura, Vatican City State

2012

AIA National Medal, Honor of Architects involved Post-9/11 Design and Rebuilding Efforts, Washington, DC

2013

Steel Design Awards of Excellence, Winner of Engineering and Steel Edge Categories, Canadian Institute of Steel Construction, Ontario, Canada

2014

Steel Design Awards of Excellence, Winner of ‘Bridges’ (for Peace Bridge, Calgary), CISC-ICCA Canadian Institute of Steel Construction, Alberta

ENR National, Winner of ‘Best of the best’ in ‘Higher Education/Research’ (for the Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland)

Born in Valencia, Spain

1969-74 Qualified as an architect at the Escuela Técnica

Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia.

Post-graduate course in Urbanism 1975-79 Studied civil engineering at the ETH Zurich 1979-81 Doctorate in Technical Science, ETH

Department of Architecture

1981

Architectural and engineering practice established in Zurich

The artist lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.

SELECTED AWARDS Honored more than twenty times. Named Doctor Honoris Causa by the most prestigious international universities.

1987

Auguste Perret Prize, Union

Internationale des Architectes, Paris, France

1988

IABSE, International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering, Zurich,

Switzerland

Fritz Schumacher Prize for

Urbanism, Architecture and Engineering, Hamburg, Germany

City of Barcelona Art Prize (for the Bach de Roda - Felipe II Bridge), Barcelona, Spain

1990 Médaille d’Argent de La Recherche et de la Technique, Fondation Académie d’Architecture,

Paris, France 1992

Gold Medal, Institute of Structural Engineers (IstructE), London, UK

1996

Medalla de Oro al Merito de las Bellas Artes, Ministry of Culture, Granada, Spain

1997

LVMH Art Prize, Paris, France

1998

Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres, Republic of France Paris, France

2001

Award for Excellence in Design, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York

‘Diamond Award’ ACEC (American

Council of Engineering Companies New York) in the category of Structural Systems (for the Florida Polytechnic University)

Six-time ECCS (European Convention for Constructional Steel) European Steel Design Award winner for Kronprinzenbrűcke in Berlin (1997), Pont de l’Europe, in Orléans (2001), Law Faculty Library in Zurich (2003), for both the Olympic Stadium in Athens both and Three Bridges over the Hoofdvaart in the Netherlands (2005), Three Bridges in Reggio Emilia (2009) and Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Texas (2012).

Winner of two Brunel Awards, Watford Conference of European Railway Architects and Designers, for the Stadelhofen Railway Station in Zurich (1992), for the Oriente Station, Lisbon (1998).

SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS 2015

On Park Avenue, Marlborough Gallery, NYC Parks and the Fund for Park Avenue, New York (through November 2015)

2014

Sculptures, Ceramics and Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York

2013

The Metamorphosis of Space, The Charlemagne Wing in the Colonnade of St. Peter’s Square, organized by The Vatican Museums and The Pontifical Council for Culture, Vatican City, Rome, Italy

2012 Santiago Calatrava: The Quest for Movement, The

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Calatrava and SMU: A Decade in Motion, Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

2011

Building a Masterpiece: Santiago Calatrava at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee

Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2010

Santiago Calatrava: Sculptectures, Museum Le Grand Curtius, Liége, Belgium

2009

Santiago Calatrava: World Trade Center Transportation Hub, Queen Sofía Spanish Institute, New York, New York

2007

Santiago Calatrava: Dalle forme all’architettura, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy

Santiago Calatrava Architecture et Olympisme, Musée Olympique Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport Railway Station, Lyon, France

SELECTED MONOGRAPHS

2005

Santiago Calatrava: Sculpture into Architecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, Dallas, Texas Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Blanco, M. Santiago Calatrava. Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, 1999

2004

Clay and Paint: Ceramics and Watercolors by Santiago Calatrava, Queen Sofia Spanish Institute,

Montjuic Communications Tower, Barcelona, Spain Museum of Tomorrow, Rio, Brazil Olympic Sports Complex, Athens, Greece

New York, New York

Oriente Station, Lisbon, Portugal

World Trade Center Transportation Hub, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Palau de les Artes, Valencia, Spain

2003 Santiago Calatrava: Wie ein Vogel/Like a Bird,

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria

Path WTC, New York, New York Peace Bridge, Calgary, Canada

Colombo, M. Santiago Calatrava. Milano: Hachette, 2011

Petah-Tikva Footbridge, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Frampton, Kenneth, Anthony C. Webster, and Anthony Tischhauser. Santiago Calatrava: Bridges. 2nd expanded ed.

Zurich: Birkhauser Verlag, 1996

Pfalzkeller Gallery, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Poetics of Movement: The Architecture of Santiago Calatrava, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

Calatrava: Architect, Sculptor, Engineer, National Gallery Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece

Calatrava, Teloglion Foundation of Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

Reggio Emilia Ponti, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2000

Santiago Calatrava: Scultore, Ingegnere, Architetto, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

Samuel Beckett Bridge, Dublin, Ireland

Alameda Bridge and Metro Station, Valencia, Spain Alamillo Bridge and Cartuja Viaduct, Seville, Spain Auditorio de Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain Bach de Roda - Felipe II Bridge, Barcelona, Spain BCE Place: Galleria & Heritage Square, Toronto, Canada Bodegas Ysios, San Sebastian, Spain Campo Volantin Footbridge, Bilbao, Spain Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain El Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos, Oviedo, Spain Emergency Services Centre, St. Gallen, Switzerland Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland, Florida James Joyce Bridge, Dublin, Ireland Kronprinzen Bridge, Berlin, Germany Liège Guillemins TGV Railway Station, Liège, Belgium Light Rail Train (LRT) Bridge, Jerusalem, Israel

Carrillo de Albornoz Fisac, C. Santiago Calatrava. New York: Assouline, 2013 Chariot, C. Santiago Calatrava: Sculpectures. Brussels: Fonds Mercator, 2010

2001

SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

Blaser, Werner, ed. Santiago Calatrava: Ingenier Architektur/Engineering Architecture. 2nd ed. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 1996

Puente de la Mujer Bridge, Buenos Aires, Argentina Puente de L’Assut d’Or, Valencia, Spain Quarto Ponte Sul Canal Grande, Venice, Italy Railway Station and Bridge, Reggio Emilia, Italy Remodelacion de la Plaza de Espana, Alcoy, Spain Sondica Airport and Control Tower, Bilbao, Spain Stadelhofen Station, Zurich, Switzerland Sundial Footbridge, Redding, California Tabourettli Theatre, Basel, Switzerland Three Bridges over the Hoofdvaart, Hoofddorp, Holland Turning Torso, Malmö, Sweden

Galiano, L.F. Santiago Calatrava 1983-1996, Madrid: Arquitectura Viva, 1996 Jodidio, Philip. Santiago Calatrava: Complete Works, 19792007. Koln: Taschen, 2007.

Kent, Cheryl. Santiago Calatrava: Milwaukee Art Museum Quadracci Pavilion. New York: Rizzoli, 2005 Lefaivre, Liane, and Tzonis, Alexander. Santiago Calatrava’s Creative Process II: Sketchbooks. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 2001 Levin, Michael. Calatrava: Drawings and Sculptures.

Weinfelden, Switzerland: Wolfau-Druck AG, 2000 Levin, Michael. Santiago Calatrava: The Artworks: A Laboratory of Ideas, Forms and Structures. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 2003

Zurich Law Library, Zurich, Switzerland

Sharp, Dennis, ed. Santiago Calatrava. (Architectural Monographs no. 46) London: Academy Editions; New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1996

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Tischhauser, Anthony, and Stanislaus von Moos.

Calatrava: Public Buildings. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 1998

SMU’s Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas

Tzonis, Alexander. Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works, Expanded Edition. New York: Rizzoli, 2007

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York The American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York

Tzonis, Alexander. Santiago Calatrava: The Poetics of Movement. New York: Universe Publishing, 1999 Tzonis, Alexander. Santiago Calatrava’s Creative Process I: Fundamentals. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 2001 Tzonis, Alexander, and Rebeca Caso Donadei. Santiago Calatrava: The Bridges. New York: Rizzoli, 2005

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S1, 2015 painted, welded plate aluminum 402 x 104 x 216 in., 1021.28 x 264.16 x 548.84 cm

OPPOSITE:

S5, 2015 painted, welded plate aluminum 432 x 120 x 121 in., 1097.28 x 304.80 x 307.34 cm

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