The New York Times writes about the newest exhibit to appear on their roof garden, “Transitional Object: PsychoBarn”. Every summer, the Met Roof Garden has an outdoor specific art instillation, and in some years, you can see parts of it when standing in Central Park. This years exhibit should be one of those.
The roof garden is part of the entrance fee to the museum (pay what you want), and will open this Tuesday, April 19th and will run through October 31st. The project’s full name is “Transitional Object: (PsychoBarn),” assembled at two-thirds of the scale of a real house and with only two finished sides, just like the film set of the 1960 Hitchcock film “Psycho” that gave Ms. Parker part of her inspiration.
The back of the project — which the artist Cornelia Parker doesn’t hide, but rather emphasizes — reveals it as fake, supported by metal scaffolding and tamped down with large black water tanks, providing ballast so it won’t blow over in a strong wind.“When you round the corner, you might think it’s the house from ‘Psycho,’ or you might think it’s a red barn,” Ms. Parker said. “It’s cognitive dissonance. You oscillate in between two things — one is cozy, the other malign.” She added, “It’s not a one-liner.”
To read the article in its entirety, along with seeing some photos, click here.