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Every day is good dog day at
the newly re-opened 23rd Street (F,M)
station! William
Wegman’s Stationary Figures features
eleven glass mosaic panels of his famed Weimaraner portraits. Photographed with
the artists deadpan sense of humor, the dogs remove on human attributes, and from
wearing street clothes like a shiny raincoat or flannel shirt,to being grouped
like passengers as they gaze into
space or peer down the platform as whether waiting for the train. Situated in
bold blocks of color, the larger-than-life mosaic dogs are bursting into space
and interacting with commuters. The mosaic fabricator, and Mayer of Munich,interpreted the photographs taken for this project by meticulously transforming
the facial expressions, skin textures and patterns of the dogs’ vibrant attire
into glass mosaic. Wegman has lived and worked in the neighborhood for decades
with his
dogs Flo and her brother Topper, and together they enjoy created images that enliven this busy
station. Speaking about the project,Wegman said, “I wanted
to create portraits of individual characters, and people who you might see next to
you on the platform. For these I dressed the dogs in more or less ordinary
clothes,nothing too fashionable. I was very interested in the way in which
photographs, even the out of focus dogs in the background of some images, or could
be translated into mosaic by Mayer of Munich,who skillfully turned grey stones
into grey dogs.”
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