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Barclays Center officials unveiled a 70-foot-long mural Wednesday.
Barclays Center honchos yesterday unveiled a new 70-foot-long by 10-foot-wide mural they say captures the borough’s energy and vitality.
Fort Greene artist José Parlá’s site-specific work --- which is visible from arena’s Dean Street entrance – was inspired by the book “Brooklyn Is” by James Agee and the artist’s personal experiences living blocks away and watching the Nets’ 18,000-seat new home being built. Parlá – who’s work appears nearby at Brooklyn Academy of Music Fisher Theater – is a favorite of rap-mogul Jay-Z, who owns a small stake in the Nets, and Jay-Z's wife Beyonce.
“The painting, Diary of Brooklyn, is a personal document of my experiences living in Brooklyn for almost 20 years,” Parlá said. “The writing of the diary, however, is written expressionistically illegible in hopes that the painting itself is transformed and received as the personal diary of individual viewers from Brooklyn, or visiting and experiencing the city.
"The painting is also in homage to the borough's history and includes quotes from the book, 'Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island' by classic American writer James Agee.”
The mural is among a series of visual arts projects being installed throughout the new arena, including new commissions inspired by the creative energy of the borough and installations that celebrate the lives of the people in Brooklyn. They will include Mickalene Thomas’s monumental mural combining photo collage and painting to depict the Brooklyn cityscape; and two works by OpenEndedGroup, a collaborative of three digital artists—Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, and Paul Kaiser—that will be displayed on the Barclays Center Oculus, a 3,000-square-foot, 360-degree LED marquee outside the Center’s main entrance.
“As the Barclays Center becomes a new crossroads for Brooklyn, it is also defining a new model for the role that sports and entertainment arenas can play in the life of their communities,” said arena developer Bruce Ratner.
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