Manhattan within Book

Manhattan Within is an unprecedented and exhilarating color rendition of Manhattanâ??s fabled skyline as viewed from inside Central Park. The continuous 22-foot-long color drawing unfurls accordion-style. It is be accompanied by a beautifully written book in which the artist recounts his thoughts, experiences and techniques in making this drawing.Milan-trained architect Matteo Pericoli fell in love with New York when he moved here in 1995, and he credits the city with fueling his considerable imagination. His previous work, the widely acclaimed Manhattan Unfurled, rendered the city skylineâ??as seen from the surrounding riversâ??in two continuous black and white line drawings. This breathtaking new color work follows the perimeter of Central Park, depicting, in a way never visualized before, the city as it faces its own center. The drawing contains over 620 buildings (with over 35,800 windows!) including the Guggenheim, Rockefeller Center, the Dakota, the Plaza Hotel and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The separate short book that accompanies Manhattan Within relates Pericoliâ??s observations throughout this projectâ??among them, his eloquent thoughts on Manhattan compared to older European cities, the significance of the islandâ??s barriers and thresholds, and the nature of art itself. He also describes the archaeology of the drawing: the physical process he employed and the challenges posed by the complexity of creating a 360-degree drawing of this inside-out skyline.Read More