Hello and can you help me?

[Freebird]

Hello everyone. Im brand new! Im an English woman obsessed with New York, unfortunately work and family committments mean that I only get over twice a year so I have to make do with making my house as New Yorkish as possible....Im after a particular item that Ive seen on the (thousands) of make over shows I watch through my work....its a sculpture of the workers on the scaffolding....think its by a bloke called Sergi? Any one help?
Nice forum, you all seem so friendly.....:)

[lofter1]

I think the one you refer to is based on this photo by Charles Ebbets (1932):

http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10090000/10090221.jpg

http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/PD--10090221/SP--A/IGID--808883/Lunch_Atop_a_Skyscraper_1932.htm?sOrig=CAT&sOrigID=8809&ui=9557F9F689194FDB982F12C1382CE4EE#

The sculptor often parks his truck (with the life-sized version of the sculpture) near the corner of Prince / West Broadway. He sells miniature versions of the piece you describe along with other pieces he has made.

[lofter1]

The sculptor is Sergio Furnari: http://www.sergiofurnari.com/

http://www.sergiofurnari.com/images/sculpture/lifesize/1.jpg

http://www.sergiofurnari.com/images/sculpture/lifesize/13.jpg

http://www.sergiofurnari.com/images/press/DailyNews_012902.jpg

[Freebird]

Thankyou so much...I was nearly there...Sergi.
Very much appreciated.

[tdp]

I have seen much smaller versions of the sculpture being sold on the street (figures about 30cm tall) - back in 2001...

In the UK, the original photograph has been named "City Lunch - Rockefeller Center" and "Men of Steel".

Try completing the 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of the same picture - it's a nightmare!!

Along with Spider-Man (!?), it's one of the first things that started my interest in (and subsequent love of) NYC.

Freebird - you are soooo lucky to get over twice a year! I have made it just three times since 2001.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Geez, the guy made a cottage industry out of one great photo.

A little cheesy as sculpture.

There's a female version by David Allen, called "Women on the Rise."
http://www.davidallenstudio.com/portfolio/zoom/women

[Freebird]

Hey Zippy thanks for that! I think thats brilliant as well.

Twice a year...I wish it was every day :(. Problem is this year Im not sure Ill be able to get over even once, not a happy bunny I can tell you..........:(

[antinimby]

A Mobile Work of Art Is Missing an Ironworker


http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/01/18/nyregion/sculpture600.jpg
Sergio Furnari in 2002, in front of his ironworkers sculpture, which replicates a famous photograph.


By JENNIFER 8. LEE
Published: January 18, 2007 (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/nyregion/18statue.html)

Perhaps the most famous construction crew in the city’s history is down a man.

A figure of an ironworker has been stolen from a sculpture that stood at ground zero for five months and replicates a famous photograph of workers eating lunch on a steel beam high above the city, the police said.

The sculpture is a life-size depiction of the unattributed 1932 photograph, which shows a group of 11 ironworkers above the Rockefeller Center construction site.

The rightmost figure in the sculpture disappeared sometime between Sunday night and yesterday afternoon from outside the sculptor’s studio on 47th Avenue in Long Island City, Queens, the sculptor said.

The sculptor, Sergio Furnari, 37, said he discovered it was missing yesterday when he went out to a truck that carries the sculpture, intending to drive it around Manhattan. He said the thieves had to have climbed up 12 feet just to get to the 100-pound figure, which was welded to a beam.

“It was something premeditated,” he said. “It wasn’t a bunch of kids just passing by.” Last night investigators were taking fingerprints at the scene.

Mr. Furnari worked for a year on the artwork, finishing a few weeks after Sept. 11, 2001. It resonated with the workers clearing ground zero, and was given a space near the viewing platform in May 2002, where it remained for five months before going on a coast-to-coast tour.

“The twin towers were made by the ironworkers, and it was the ironworkers that had to remove the whole steel out of ground zero,” Mr. Furnari said.

“Those statues meant a lot after 9/11 for all New Yorkers,” he said. “It’s American history. Those are the guys who built America. Part of me feels like, if they took that, they took a piece of New York City and American history.”

Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company

[antinimby]

Moderators, since this thread has become the default thread on these statues, wouldn't it be better if the title was changed to better reflect this topic?

[shocka]

I seriously cant belive the low life who stole this.

[ablarc]

Can most folks tell there's someone missing? Think of him as the ironworker who finished his lunch.

[shocka]

most folks


Prob not, but anyone who appreciates art (i think there are many in NYC) yes.