Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - It's the last day to experience "ONE through ZERO (The Ten Numbers)" at Wilkeson Pointe on Buffalo's Outer Harbor.
World-famous artist Robert Indiana’s exhibit, which opened in June 2018, will be deinstalled beginning Oct. 1. The 8-foot-high COR-TEN steel sculptures, each weighing close to a ton, are on loan at Wilkeson Pointe. The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation previously approved a contract with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG) which facilitated the loan and exhibition of this monumental work of public art.
“As the sun sets on another spectacular summer, we are sad to see Indiana’s sculptures leave the Outer Harbor but Buffalo is fortunate to have hosted these bold, iconic sculptures at Wilkeson Pointe,” said ECHDC Chairman Robert Gioia. “You have one last chance to get down to the Outer Harbor to appreciate both the art, as well as the natural beauty of our waterfront.”
Numbers are another of Indiana’s frequently reoccurring motifs. Art historian and curator Barbara Haskell explains that “numbers had appeared in Indiana’s work even before words,” and acted as metaphors for the passage of time. Renowned art historian John Wilmerding has compared Indiana’s numbers to paintings representing the ages of man by 19th-century artist Thomas Cole, of the Hudson River School. Indiana said each number represents a stage of life, beginning with One (birth) and continuing through Nine (old age) and Zero (death).