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Article: Hans Peter Kuhn at Pier 32 on the Hudson River.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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Hans Peter Kuhn's The Pier was an evening light-and-sound installation along the Hudson River on the lower west side of Manhattan, near Canal Street. It ran for two weeks last October. The work consisted of nine plywood pillars about 15 feet tall and 6 feet square, spaced equidistantly on the derelict Pier 32. The pillars were painted in pairs of bright solid colors, and also bathed in colored light-each had one hue on the north and south sides and another on the east and west, so that, seen at an angle and from a distance, the same color pairs were visible regardless of viewing position.
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