HVCCA: Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

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PO Box 209
Peekskill, NY 10566

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LONG-TERM INSTALLATIONS

Ongoing Long-Term Installations

Folkert de Jong - Mount Maslow, 2007

Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is one of the most innovative young sculptors today. Inspired by Abraham Maslow’s “Theory of Human Motivation,” De Jong stages an 18-foot styrofoam snow mountain being scaled by two bearded figures. Hamburger Hill references an American assault on a Vietnam position in which most of the troops died and the hill had no strategic value.

Thomas Hirschhorn - Laundrette, 2001

Using commonplace materials such as cardboard, linoleum, postage tape and aluminum foil, Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn has recreated a full-scale replica of a laundrette, in which cardboard models of washing-machines are inset with television sets showing global atrocities downloaded from the internet juxtaposed to videos of the artist performing everyday, commonplace tasks. Hirschhorn, who has become the most celebrated international installation artist, challenges us to consider how poverty and neglect has led to human incivility.

Past Long-Term Installations

Helène Aylon - The Earth Ambulance: '82 - '92 - '02 and The Bridge of Knots

June 12, 2004 - October 7, 2007
In May 1982, Helène Aylon created an Earth Ambulance for a ceremonial cross-country journey to 12 Strategic Air Command (S.A.C.) bases to metaphorically "rescue" endangered Earth and bring it to "safety" at the U.N.