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Plastic
Pan is part of a series of elaborate installations and
objects made from household product boxes and containers.
Painted with one point perspective to appear as a classical
bust, the illusion is quickly diffused when one realizes
that the sculpture is made from a neatly arranged pile
of trash. Pan is the Greek god of woods and fields,
flocks and shepherds, a musician, player of the pipes,
and leader of the dance. Ladda presents this personification
of nature by creating a tower of aggressive consumption.
It is fitting that Pan, who favored Arcadia, should
reside for this brief period at Wave Hill.
Justen Ladda’s installation for P.S. 7 in the
nearby Kingsbridge neighborhood was completed in 1991.
In 1982 he was part of Wave Hill’s exhibition
New Perspectives, and created a mural in the swimming
pool, now the site of the Elliptical Garden. He has
exhibited widely including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary
Art, Ridgefield, CT, the Museum of Modern Art, and the
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY. |
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Plastic Pan, 1990
flashe paint over disposable plastic containers
74” x 21” x 42”
Photograph by Oren Slor |
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