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Teresita Fernández recounts her remarkable public art career
The artist explains her new Madison Square Park installation and her previous public-art favorites
Over the past 15 years, artist Teresita Fernández has created more than a dozen public art projects that put the viewer in the role of both spectator and performer. Recalling natural phenomena, her evocative installations, which could be called conceptual landscapes, often rely on optical illusions that become more magical with repeated visits. She talks about her new piece, Fata Morgana, at Madison Square Park, and the earlier works that led to it.
Teresita Fernández, Fata Morgana is at Madison Square Park through winter 2016.
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Teresita Fernández, Fata Morgana
Fernández's series of reflective gold canopies hanging over the paths in Madison Square Park takes it title from the term describing a mirage shimmering along the horizon line where water or land meets the sky. In a similar vein, the suspended disc-shaped forms making up the piece are perforated, allowing the sky to bleed through a mirror view of the ground below.