- Artist | June 13, 1935 -
And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.
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It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.
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And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.
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All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.
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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.
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It appears to be monumental only because it's art.
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Our work is a scream of freedom.
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People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.
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I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.
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To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.
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In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.
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