1/4 wo/man. Love–e/go=Lov Couple
Public art sculpture in the Civic Center of lower Manhattan by Pavel (Pasha) Radetzki.
Small Collect Pond, Thomas Paine Park; October 21-March 31, 2025-26.
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This work you are doing is really important in this moment of human condition.' Marina Abramović
1/4 wo/man - Lov Couple is a public art sculptural composition dedicated to the innate human values of undivided love, unconditional peace, and attainable freedom.
Featuring two altered human figures, each missing the ¼ part of their upper torso, the work alludes to humanity’s shared joy, sorrow, and regeneration from world’s military conflicts and in particular, to the ¼ population loss in the artist’s native Palesse marshlands during world war.
Carrying abstracted feminine and masculine characteristics, the figures, 1/4 Man and 1/4 Woman, represent friends, partners, nuclear family and broader humanity. Carved out torsos imply the ‘inhuman texture’ in social interrelations while serving as the fertile ground for reviving the non-violent natural spiritual worldview of the artist’s Dryhva people of the swamps culture symbolized by the figures' 'innate' cross-pollinating gardens.
Installed in front the NY Supreme Courts and Federal Plaza buildings, at the Small Collect Pond and African Burial Ground historic sites in lower Manhattan’s Civic Center, the 1/4 wo/man - Lov Couple is in conversation with the Triumph Of The Human Spirit permanent sculpture by Dr.Lorenzo Pace. The work draws parallels to the ongoing struggle of ancestral cultures of Americas and the world to animate the soaring qualities of the human spirit, contentment, and collective ability to heal and thrive together as individuals, species and communities.
1/4 wo/man - Lov Couple is activated by on-site performance series announced
@ra_detzki (upcoming on 3/21/26).
It is awarded the Creative Engagement Grant by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, funded by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs & City Council. Presented in partnership with NYC Parks and radetzki studiO, it is fiscally sponsored by the New York Foundation For The Arts and is supported by Entrance, lov.foundation, Canal St Studios & friends.
please support our public artworks by making tax-deductible donations at > NYFA.org < or via Zelle (pashara [at] gmail [dot] com)
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public art sculpture in Union Square Park, Manhattan, by Pavel (Pasha) Radetzki
May 5 - November 5, 2024
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is an interactive public art site created for intergenerational audiences in partnership with NYC Parks and Union Square Partnership.
Composed of LOV Sculpture, 3 Sisters-Americas Garden and Unity On Union Square performance series, the works articulate the notions of underlying unity and interdependence of all human lives and nature.
Inspired by the principles of reciprocity and elemental math equations, the LOV Sculpture is a free-standing architectural-sculptural composition which depicts a newly created word - LOV - a neologism with its specific meaning of egoless love and pronunciation, /lov/. The audience is invited to enact the eclipsed letter E, representing one’s self/ego, by striking ‘the letter E pose’ to the right of the sculpture to interplay the words LOV and ‘Love’.
3 Sisters-Americas garden is built-in into its structure featuring the plants native to the Americas. The title refers to the notion of ‘Abya Yala,’ a unified vitality continent in Kuna people's language.
The site is activated by Unity On Union Square performance series titled: Peace In All Languages, SunCultures Naturality, Huewomanity Founding Mothers and LOV In All Colors. The works build peacemaking narratives in public space while experimenting with conceiving of the new modes for community living, governing and human interrelations.
Press >
‘Innovative, successful public exhibition, an asset to Art In The Parks program’ | NYC Parks
'a multimedia artist extraordinaire.' Raul Zamudio
'He makes hope visible' | Village Voice'Best outdoor art in NYC' | TimeOut New York
‘We love LOV… selected as the first public artwork to be displayed in Union Square’s center lawn' |Union Square Partnership
'All you need is L-O-V.' | New York Post
This new interactive sculpture in Union Square wants you to be part of it. | TimeOut New York
New Sculpture in Union Square promotes unity provides venue for public art. | 1010 WINS New York Radio
Special thanks to our partners:
New York City Parks
Union Square Partnership
The New York Foundation For The Arts (NYFA)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)
ArtMax/Canal St Studios
lov.foundation
ArtYard LLC
LOV Works Art Initiative this project is supported by The New York Foundation For The Arts' fiscal sponsorship. HEREA select group of artworks is available for sale HERE to support our public works
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LOV Sculpture site performances & public programming
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Additional press:
Union Square debuts public art program with sculpture from Manhattan-based artist Pasha Radetzki |amNewYork
Why Union Square Park's LOV installation, has an ‘E' missing, explained | Times Now NewsArtist Pasha Radetzki: Love-ego=LOV | Christina Holmes PhotographyPasha RAdetzki creates the Love-ego=LOV in New York | Trend HunterNew ‘Love' sculpture in NYC is spelled without the ‘E' | Design TaxiMake Music New York Day in Union Square | amNewYorkWe accept commissions for sculpture (outdoor, garden, small scale), paintings, drawings and performances at: pashara[at]gmail[dot]com
You can also take a look at our awards-winning outdoor sculptures accomplished in Brazil > here
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Our special thanks to: NYC Parks & Elizabeth Masella, Union Square Partnership team, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Proyectos Raul Zamudio, family, Lilianka, Annie Murdock, Tom Soper, Alexandra Seaman, Lisa, Annie Yuan Zhang, Ignatius Chithelen, David Frackman, Kirsten Cole, Cristina Holmes, Yuko Arakawa, Amit Sahu, Orlando & Shirly Palacios, Caterina Verde & Peat and Repeat, Eva Conant, Ezra Wube, Kevin Nathaniel, Salieu Suso, Famoro Dioubate, Saco Myoji, Ishkara, Charlotte Douglass, Sylvain Leroux, Fernando Colón-González, Russo.