New Work: ‘Event Horizon’

We’ve been feeling a little lonely since the figures of Event Horizon, this summer’s blockbuster public art installation in and around Madison Square Park, packed up and left town over a month ago. A new exhibition catalogue published by the Madison Square Park Conservancy and its Mad. Sq. Art program commemorates the visitation of Antony Gormley’s 31 life-size figures to the park and the rooftops of the surrounding buildings.

The book, produced in a limited edition, includes over 70 photographs by James Ewing of the installed sculptures and candid reaction shots of New Yorkers on the street encountering them for the first time. The book also features an original short story by Man Booker-prize nominated novelist Colm Tóibín and reflections by an array of New Yorkers, including NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, area restaurateur Danny Meyer, architects Deborah Berke and Hugh Hardy, and Pentagram’s own Paula Scher and Nazim Ali, superintendent of our building at 204 Fifth. Scher designed the book using the graphic identity she created for the exhibition and the park.

The limited edition catalogue goes on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, September 29. Get your copy here.

A look inside the book after the jump.