THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Hilarie M. Sheets
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| George Condo’s new sculpture, “Constellation of Voices,” on the terrace of the Metropolitan Opera’s facade. |
Visitors to Lincoln Center Plaza may be dazzled or disoriented by the light bouncing from the 24-karat-gold-leaf surface of George Condo’s new sculptural spectacle, rising more than 13 feet on the terrace of the Metropolitan Opera’s facade.
“Trying to find what it is that you’re actually looking at will be part of the visual excitement of the piece,” the artist said of his first major public sculpture, “Constellation of Voices,” which was unveiled on Tuesday.
Mr. Condo, 61, is best known for his bold figurative paintings that blend old master techniques and cartoonish characters, capturing a range of emotions from many perspectives in a method he calls “psychological Cubism.” [
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| Mr. Condo said he first envisioned a kind of sun god. “I thought about the idea of a beacon of light and Apollo being the god of music,” he said. |
