The artist Gaetano Patané in conversation with Claudio Pagliara, director of the Italian Cultural Institute, on his temporary art installation in the fountain of Bella Abzug Park, Hudson Yard, New York: five terracotta fish swimming in the water of an urban fountain in the city of New York.
The simplicity of the gesture and materials opens an intense perceptual experience: the ripple of water and the light on the surfaces produce a subtle illusion. The fish appear alive. The fountain becomes an allegory of the sea – yet a finite sea with a visible boundary.
Choosing five fish – enough to suggest survival, yet too few to reassure- Patanè keeps the possibility open. Between persistence and disappearance, the work inhabits a threshold where meaning continues to unfold. The Last Five Fish does not offer answers, but a radical perceptual experience: to pause, to look, and to be present. In that fragile instant, something of the world becomes visible again.
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