Celebrate International Sculpture Day on Park Avenue

"In exhibiting these sculptures in New York, I hope to spark a dialogue about the crucial importance of preserving modernist U.S. Embassies and their potential to serve as analogue sites for cultural exchange between America and other countries around the world. Each sculpture tells a story of transformation as the individual lines within them turn towards each other, creating a dynamic, open, and airy collective form. The individual paths of countless immigrants like me began at a U.S. Embassy, and our lives were intertwined and transformed as we became part of the open-ended, collective American story. Embassies have enormous potential as sites of optimism and collective imagination for our multicultural futures. While far away, they are also at the very heart of the American experiment.”
– Jorge Otero-Pailos

About the Exhibitions and the Artists

Analogue Sites, a public art exhibition exploring the intersection of art, architecture, and cultural diplomacy by artist and preservation architect Jorge Otero-Pailos, debuts on April 1 on New York’s Park Avenue. Comprising three monumental steel sculptures wrought from fencing that surrounded the former U.S. Embassy in Oslo and inspired by the historical significance of Cold War-era embassies as places of cultural exchange, Analogue Sites highlights the role of American modern art and architecture in cultural diplomacy and advocates for the preservation of these modernist masterpieces at this critical moment of their decommissioning.

On view through October 31, 2024, Analogue Sites is installed along Park Avenue at East 53rd, East 66th, and East 67th Streets to respond to and engage with iconic modernist landmarks including the Seagram Building, the Lever House, and the historic Park Avenue Armory.

The Queen Sofía Spanish Institute is a proud sponsor of the exhibition Analogue Sites.