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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\tThe show was staged during the summer, and Parreno liked that the sculpture would melt during the day. \u201cI wanted to create a work that conveys time without involving any technology \u2013 like a metronome,\u201d he told Frieze<\/em> in 2020. \u201cIn the current moment, I thought it made sense again for people to come to a gallery and see something melting.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThen, 25 years later, Parreno recreated the work for his 2020 solo exhibition \u201cManifestation\u201d at Esther Schipper\u2019s Berlin space. For that iteration, Iceman<\/em> was placed on a plinth that collected the melting water. Instead of being replaced daily during the exhibition\u2019s five-week run, a new ice sculpture would come every few days, with the embedded stones and branches becoming all that remained of the work in some cases. In 2024, the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul showed another version, made in ice mixed with soil at smaller scale (around 3.15 feet tall, including the plinth, which had a metal grate this time around).<\/p>\n \n\tAt Independent, Iceman in Reality Park<\/em> will be realized in white or clear ice, at similar size as the Leeum version. Each day of Independent, a new Iceman<\/em> will arrive. \u201cThe Iceman can be reproduced as many or as few times as desired,\u201d a description of the forthcoming iteration reads. \u201cThe ice sculpture does not need to be continually installed; the empty plinth is also a manifestation of the work.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe work will also have prime positioning at the fair, as it will be installed on the Breuer building\u2019s fourth floor, which will feature the fair\u2019s two largest booths, for Esther Schipper and for Marian Goodman Gallery. (Both stands will have an L-shaped configuration, made up of two 50-foot walls, as opposed to a traditional box shape as is common at most art fairs.) \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe positioned this project in the center of the fair, in the center of the fourth floor, which is which has the biggest Breuer window and is the most dynamic of all the spaces,\u201d Dee said, noting that the window will allow natural light to directly shine on the sculpture. There, visitors will \u201cencounter this melting sculpture that will change over time and give you a sense of what it means for something to decay over that period of four days.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWhen the gallery began discussions with the art fair about its participation, they wanted to think about how the booth could show \u201cthe historical positioning of the gallery,\u201d Dee recalled. The focus would be on the artists who helped shape the gallery\u2019s program in the 1990s, particularly their connections to the relational aesthetics movement. In addition to Parreno, the booth also features work by Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, and Angela Bulloch. \u201cThis core of conceptual artists is what the gallery built itself on and what we became known for, so we thought that it would be a great way to showcase the gallery in New York as a sort of outreach,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe have just enough distance from that period to think through the nature of those questions that were being asked are,\u201d Dee said. \u201cI feel like a lot of the questions\u2014about mode of display, what constitutes an artwork, how does the audience activate [a work] through the participation, how does an exhibition actually become the artwork\u2014were so prescient in the \u201990s in many ways. For that to be so linked to the history of the gallery is super exciting to explore further.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/market\/philippe-parreno-iceman-sculpture-independent-20th-century-1234797557\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Esther-Schipper_Philippe-Parreno_Installation_I20C_2026.jpg?w=1024″] The iceman cometh\u2014to the Breuer building. Later this month, Philippe Parreno\u2019s iconic Iceman in Reality Park (1995\u20132023) will make its New York debut, courtesy his gallery, Esther Schipper, which will show it at Independent 20th Century. \u201cThe beautiful idea with the \u2018Iceman\u2019 series is that it can be reproduced as many or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2136002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2136002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2136002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2136002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2136002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IceMan-in-Reality-Park_1995_002.jpg?w=400\")
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