{"id":2432,"date":"2012-06-28T23:37:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T23:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/index.php\/2012\/06\/28\/joel-shapiro-commissioned-to-create-public\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:32:12","slug":"joel-shapiro-commissioned-to-create-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/joel-shapiro-commissioned-to-create-public","title":{"rendered":"Joel Shapiro Commissioned to Create Public Sculpture for New U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou (via ArtInfo)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image-8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image-8.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image-8-300x175.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday Washington, D.C.\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fapeglobal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;(FAPE) announced that it had commissioned New York-based sculptor&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/html\/shapiro_bio.html\"><strong>Joel Shapiro<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/a>to create a new large-scale abstract public sculpture to stand outside the forthcoming U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, which is being built by&nbsp;<strong>Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill<\/strong>\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Craig Hartman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new 22-foot site-specific sculpture will be donated by the artist and unveiled outside the Consulate\u2019s main entrance in 2013. This marks Shapiro\u2019s second project with FAPE: in 1999 he installed&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/canada.usembassy.gov\/about-us\/embassy-information\/frequently-asked-questions\/sculpture.html\" target=\"_blank\">a 40-feet-tall sculpture titled \u201cConjunction\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;at the enormous, fortress-like U.S. Embassy in Ottawa. Shapiro cautioned viewers who might see in the twisting, zigzagging sculpture intimations of a tortuous relationship between the U.S. and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe State Department, with the assistance of FAPE, places abstract and challenging work in American embassies and consulates that serve the local population,\u201d he&nbsp; said Shapiro in a press release. \u201cThere is no political narrative other than the celebration of individual spirit, which I think is a quality that can find common ground and transcend cultural parameters. This is adventurous, lively, and in the end perhaps revelatory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other artists who\u2019ve created works for U.S. embassies and consulates as part of the FAPE program include&nbsp;<strong>Lynda Benglis<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Louise Bourgeois<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Ron Gorchov<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Ellsworth Kelly<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Sol LeWitt<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Maya Lin<\/strong>. The sculptor&nbsp;<strong>Martin Puryear<\/strong>&nbsp;is currently working on a major piece for another major new U.S. building in China: Its Beijing embassy. That project will be finished in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Benjamin Sutton<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Image: Conceptual rendering of Joel Shapiro\u2019s sculpture outside of the new U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China; Courtesy FAPE and the artist.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Washington, D.C.\u2019s&nbsp;Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies&nbsp;(FAPE) announced that it had commissioned New York-based sculptor&nbsp;Joel Shapiro&nbsp;to create a new large-scale abstract public sculpture to stand outside the forthcoming U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, which is being built by&nbsp;Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill\u2019s&nbsp;Craig Hartman. 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