Iceman in Reality Park

Philippe Parreno

1995–2019
Sculpted ice, stones, wooden sticks, wooden plinth with found Japanese metal manhole cover, sound installation
Dimensions variable
Winsing Arts Collection

Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Iceman in Reality Park

Philippe Parreno

1995–2019
Sculpted ice, stones, wooden sticks, wooden plinth with found Japanese metal manhole cover, sound installation
Dimensions variable
Winsing Arts Collection

Iceman in Reality Park was first created for the 1995 group exhibition Ripple Across the Water — curated by Jan Hoet — which turned Aoyama city center, Japan into an outdoor art gallery. Every day just before lunch, in the private park of the Kirin Brewery Company in Minami Aoyama where employees gathered to eat, a refrigerated truck delivered an ice sculpture of a snowman. Every day the sculpture melted and was replaced the next day.

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Artist Biography

Philippe Parreno

Born in Algeria, Philippe Parreno studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Grenoble and at the Institute des hautes études en arts plastiques at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and now he lives and works in Paris. His pieces have been collected and exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Tate Modern, and Serpentine Gallery in London.

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