{"id":453,"date":"2026-07-26T12:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/?p=453"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T16:24:08","slug":"sergei_markelov_blog_post5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/pentangelo26\/2026\/07\/26\/sergei_markelov_blog_post5\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergei_Markelov_Blog_Post#5"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to discuss the possibility of replicating the art exhibited on a High Line, it is enough to stop by the marketplace located down the way in this linear park. Unfortunately, I did not take a picture of the pieces I want to talk about, though the piece of art used to be on a High Line no longer exists \u2014 it\u2019s been replaced by the Buddha\u2019s statue. But this sculpture with archaeological and biological subtext, ironically called Dinosaur, represents \u201ca large, hyper-realistic cast-aluminum sculpture<\/a> of a feral pigeon, by Colombian artist Iv\u00e1n Argote, installed since October 2024 at New York City’s High Line\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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(It is a photo of mine I took about a year ago).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The pigeon was highly observed from 10th Ave while you navigating you way by highway reaching 30th St. Personally, I like this enormous sculpture more as it is also multicultural and represents New York for certain point more than Buddha, though I\u2019d rather seen this sculpture from the High Line, more often from the highway level driving around New York, with also capturing series of sculptures of humans parts with their dissolving, disappeared parts located on a Park Ave and representing immigrants, though being replaced by different kind of animals. They were kind of my daily mates as I often took those roads during my job shifts. <\/span><\/p>\n

Going back to Berger\u2019s statement about ways of seeing, even if the Dinosaur sculpture is being replaced, traders are still selling merch with Pigeon on the High Line – tote bags, T-Shirts, etc. Again, unfortunately I didn\u2019t take a picture of the merch itself, though I found a picture on the web. And this is even more interesting because the sculpture itself no longer exhibits on a parkway, but replicas of the sculpture, its recognizable image still available for tourists.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For me, of course, while navigating a truck through New York in a jam on 10th Ave, this sculpture represented the emotional connection with those days and gave me some joy in harsh moments; it\u2019s connected with my memory, with, again, an attachment to my emotional sphere rather than an empty representation of those moments by taking a tote bag with its replica. However, even the tote bag with Pigeon\u2019s image might stimulate the memory and feelings connected with the sculpture that no longer exists, and probably this kind of representation doesn\u2019t make any sense if applied to the initial sculpture, though the tote bag is more of a shell being brought from the summer vacation rather than the initial copy. But in a way of possibilities to replicating art, even the sculptures no matter where they are located, in this way we, I think, living in a world with high level of blurred artistic value as soon as basically any kind of piece of art might be replicated, multiplied, and being sold in a souvenir store or even curbside near by the famous sculptures like Charging Bull etc. <\/span><\/p>\n

Still, the possibilities of replication today with 3D printing and AI are limitless. Any kind of art might be turned into something smaller, bigger, find its place on a mag or token, or take the same scale and dimension in another place, even giving different senses simultaneously while connecting two controversial patterns together like juxtaposition of pigeon and Dinosaur in a gigantic representation. However, if following Berger\u2019s statements I found the main litmus test personally is the definition of emotional connection with this piece of art, as if that emotion appeared in the way of seeing the original work, no token or tote bag can replace it. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is like watching the Goodby Language by Jean-Luc Godard when you can watch this movie on DVD hundreds of times, but the initial emotional connection with the exact author\u2019s idea you can achieve only by observing this film in 3D in a movie theater or in a VR projector at least. Same, I assume, with highly debated Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey \u2013 there is a limited number of theaters in the world where you can watch this movie as it is, with no way of achieving the same IMAX 70mm experience at home, and in this way even the movie-blockbuster becomes a piece of art even if you can replicate it in an eternal amount of copies. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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