TABLEAU VIVANT (Morning glory), 2024

Álvaro Urbano, TABLEAU VIVANT (Morning glory), 2024, Metal, paint, 295 × 115 × 95 cm

This hand-painted metal sculpture is part of a series of works made for the artist’s solo exhibition at the Sculpture Center in New York. In the show, botanical elements inhabit the installation – all uniquely rendered in painted metal – and reference the vegetation of The Ramble in Central Park during springtime. Magnolia branches, morning glories, and rhododendron bushes are frozen in bloom; jeffersonia plants sprout from the concrete floor. Half-eaten apples lie as if they were bitten just a few minutes ago and vines crawl up the building’s architecture.