Christian Hincapié

Christian Hincapié is a Colombian-American artist. He lives in New York and teaches at Parsons School of Design and Rutgers University.
I. There is a small park in the South Bronx, adjacent to the larger St. Mary’s Park that for a long time had a simple mural that read “I-Am-Park.” I always noticed and admired it as a clear affirmation of presence. I am park. Since I moved to the Bronx in 2014, there has been a push for gentrification and development both by the city and private enterprise. Things go away when there is development. This displacement, the impermanence of things, is one of the reasons I make my large scale rubbings.
Christian Hincapié at work at Rockefeller Center on Art Decoy (from Industry and Agriculture, One Rockefeller Plaza by artist C. Paul Jennewein), 2018. Courtesy the artist.

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