A 32 feet high installation and a glowing sphere made by the artist are reminiscent of the Trylon and Perisphere, the signature monuments of the 1939 World’s Fair.
A 32 feet high installation and a glowing sphere made by the artist are reminiscent of the Trylon and Perisphere, the signature monuments of the 1939 World’s Fair.
Pavilion of Azerbaijan
by Tommy & Taylor Ilishaev-Kurs (age 11 & 10)
We imagine Baku to be a beautiful place to visit
Pavilion of Philippines - by Armand Cordero(age 9)
I wish the floods, from bad weather, were over.
Pavilion of Cuba - by Phobe Gomez (age 5)
I imagine a free Cuba
Pavilion of Tanzania - by Shivani Mulji (age 15)
I imagine Tanzania as a place where the flowers are allowed to
bloom freely with no limitations created by industrialization
Pavilion of China - by Maya Pruitt (age 15)
I wish that Chinese people could have true freedom of expression without government censorship.
Pavilion of South Korea - by Eunice & Isac Yoon (age 11&15)
We imagine South Korea is a large and busy country
A mural-sized group portrait of the participants is serve as a U.S. pavilion.
In this project, a re-imagined Westinghouse Time Capsule solicits exhibition visitors to write on a wooden chip what they do not wish for future generations. Then throw it against a big black door. It inverting the capsule’s purpose, this collection of “non-wishes” will be burned at the end of the exhibition, rather than preserved.
O ZHANG QUEENS MUSEUM SOLO SHOW
November 01, 2009- April 25, 2010
Cutting the Blaze to New Frontiers marks the 70th anniversary of the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair. The project harkens back to its inspirational theme “the Dawn of a New Day” against the backdrop of today’s financial crisis.
The artist assembled a miniature world’s fair in collaboration with a group of Queens youth of immigrant parents. Having never visited their parents’ countries of origin, the young participants imagined their own “motherland” as a national pavilion. O Zhang’s mini-Fair reflects the increasingly complex cultural demographics of Queens and its inimitable vigor as the future of the nation. (on view Nov 1st, 2009 - April 25th 2010, at The Queens Museum of Art, New York)