Life-Sized Rhino Sculpture Coming To Midtown

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — A life-sized aluminum rhinoceros will be put on display in a Midtown Manhattan building Tuesday, the Gagosian Gallery announced.

The sculpture, titled "Things," was created by Swiss artists Urs Fischer, the gallery said in a press release. "Things" will be on public display inside 511 Fifth Ave. near East 43rd Street, according to the press release.

Passersby can catch a glimpse of the aluminum rhinoceros through the building's tall, arched windows on its ground floor, according to the gallery. Fischer's sculpture is unique in that a number of man-made objects including a copy machine, a car door and a handbag are interwoven with the rhinoceros.

"'Things' considers the ways that objects and forces—from plastic bottles and Wi-Fi signals to memories, history, and emotion—gather around and pass through our bodies as we move through the world, creating countless versions of reality that are specific to each of us," reads a press release. "Like the rhinoceros, we absorb all that comes into our vicinity, and in the process we ourselves undergo a constant, often undetectable metamorphosis."

"Things" will remain on display at 511 Fifth Ave. through June 23. The public installation is running in concurrence with Fischer's "Sōtatsu" exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery on the Upper East Side, according to a press release.

Photo by Stefan Altenburger courtesy Urs Fischer