Mark Manders Tilted Head, 2015-18; Patinated bronze

Courtesy the artist, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery New York / Los Angeles
Photo: Jason Wyche, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY

For six months in 2019, Public Art Fund featured Mark Manders: Tilted Head at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, one of the most popular entry ways into Central Park, thanks to the generosity of the Fuhrman Family Foundation.

Mark Manders (b. 1968, The Netherlands) has been interested in the human figure throughout his career, and is particularly fascinated with the head, which he sometimes depicts detached from the body and juxtaposed with different elements. With Tilted Head, Manders rendered a compelling fiction of human form that inhabited a poetic space between representation and abstraction, serenity and rupture, life and mortality.