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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Moving Garden comprises a forty-five-foot-long granite table with one hundred freshly cut flowers that appear to grow out of a channel running down its middle. Created by New York\u2013based artist Lee Mingwei, the interactive installation also includes single blossoms arranged around the channel, which visitors are invited to take when they leave the Museum, on the condition that they make a detour on the way to their next destination and give the flower to a stranger as a gift. As the day wears on, the flowers on the table disappear, one by one. The next day, they are replaced, and the cycle begins again.<\/p>\n
Lee\u2019s piece was inspired by his reading of Lewis Hyde\u2019s The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, which explores the beneficial effects of gifts on both those who give them and those who receive. Another inspiration came on a spring day, when the artist was sitting along the banks of the Rh\u00f4ne River in Lyon and saw hundreds of flowers inexplicably floating downstream. This 2009 piece is one of many participatory works of art that Lee has been creating since the late 1990s.<\/p>\n
Lee Mingwei: “The Moving Garden” was organized by Eugenie Tsai, John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, in close cooperation with the artist.<\/p>\n
Lee Mingwei: “The Moving Garden” is made possible by the Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York and by generous support from Rong-Chaun Chen, Jane Lombard and Richard J. Lombard, Amy and Leo Shih, and Wen-Chuan Tseng.<\/p>\n
\nTime : Thursday, November 10 \u00b7 5:00pm – 6:00pm
\nLocation: Taipei Cultural Center in New York
\n1 East 42nd Street, New York, New York<\/div>\n