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¼ wo/man. Love-ego=Lov Couple.
Public art sculpture in the Civic Center of Lower Manhattan by Pavel (Pasha) Radetzki.
Small Collect Pond / Thomas Paine Park; October 21, 2025-March 31, 2026; extended through August 9th.
Steel armature and anchoring plate, reinforced resin, automotive paint, soil, medicinal plants, and seeds; 8 × 6 × 6 ft
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This work you are doing is really important in this moment of human condition.' Marina Abramović
¼ wo/man - Lov Couple 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.
¼ wo/man is a public sculpture exploring human loss, resilience, joy, and regeneration. The work references the loss of one quarter of the population in the artist’s native Palesse marshlands on the Belarus–Ukraine border during World War II, while reflecting on the ongoing erosion of the natural spiritual worldview of the region’s indigenous Dryhva culture.
The figures’ carved-out torsos function as living gardens planted with cross-pollinating medicinal species. These cultivated spaces transform absence into a site of communal renewal, linking the two figures through ecological exchange and growth.
Installed in dialogue with Dr. Lorenzo Pace’s Triumph of the Human Spirit monument in nearby Foley Square, the work reflects on cross-cultural survival, collective healing, and the enduring capacity of communities to regenerate across generations and continents.
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The public rt walk & performance.
We will meet at the City Hall Park’s southern entrance on June 21st at 3pm (Park Row/Broadway) and will visit Genesis Belanger ‘Heads Or Tails,’ a newly opened exhibition presented by the Public Art Fund.
We will then walk over to the ‘Triumph of the Human Spirit’, permanent installation by Dr. Lorenzo Pace in Foley Square which currently celebrates its 25th anniversary; presented by the Percent For Art program, DCLA.
The walk will culminate with on-site public presentation at 3.30pm at Radetzki’s 1/4 wo/man - Lov Couple sculpture in Thomas Paine Park. Sited at the historic Small Collect Pond and African Burial Ground, between Federal Plaza and Supreme Courts, the performance titled Huewomanity will address the notions of art labour, work of art, and their possible relations to the themes of personal, public and natural regeneration.
On July 11th, we will meet at 2.30pm on the High Line Spur (W30st/10ave) to participate in public programming at Tuan Andrew Nguen’s work ‘The Light That Shines Through The Universe.’
The art walk is organized by Radetzki as part of NYC Parks’ Art In The Parks program in partnership with Make Music New York.
Fiscally sponsored by NYFA, supported by LMCC, Entrance, lov.foundation, Canal St. Studios & friends.
Updates are posted @ra_detzki. Pls., support our public artworks at > nyfa.org.
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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.