{"id":9917,"date":"2016-07-02T07:08:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T12:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=9917"},"modified":"2016-10-23T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:49:15","slug":"beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/02\/beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>public art in union square.  From The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/art\">NYC Parks Department description<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lionel Smit,MORPHOUS<br \/>\nJune 13, 2016 to April 30, 2017<br \/>\nUnion Square Park, Manhattan<\/p>\n<p>Description:<br \/>\nMORPHOUS is an exploration of hybrid identity and its ever-changing nature within South Africa\u2019s social landscape. This bronze sculpture, featuring the conjoined heads of two outward-gazing young women, evokes the question of time, of past and future, and a societal commentary without judgment. The \u201cdouble-vision\u201d portrayed in this work is simultaneously a foretelling of things to come and an acknowledgement of what has already passed. The figures are charged with an emotive and gestural energy, a hallmark of Smit\u2019s evocative work. The spontaneous gestures in his three dimensional figural forms animate the beauty and grace of the faces he sees in the neighborhoods around his studio. The scale of his work invokes both a sense of celebration and power.<\/p>\n<p>This is the South African artist\u2019s first public art installation in the United States, and will be complemented by an exhibition of his work at CYNTHIA-REEVES\u2019 gallery in North Adams, MA in July and August 2016. This exhibition is presented by CYNTHIA-REEVES , Union Square Partnership , and Art New York\/Art Miami .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P6130027-698x930.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>public art in union square. From The NYC Parks Department description: Lionel Smit,MORPHOUS June 13, 2016 to April 30, 2017 Union Square Park, Manhattan Description: MORPHOUS is an exploration of hybrid identity and its ever-changing nature within South Africa\u2019s social landscape. This bronze sculpture, featuring the conjoined heads of two outward-gazing young women, evokes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,14,10],"class_list":["post-9917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-new-york-city","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6ZBi-beauty","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9919,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9917\/revisions\/9919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}