Battery Park

Histoires De Carres > Spring-Summer 2020

Located at the far end of Manhattan, The Battery is the park that runs alongside the Hudson opposite Ellis Island, where immigrants were processed at the beginning of the last century, and Liberty Island, which is dominated by the Statue of Liberty. Close to wall Street, it remains a place for remembrance and strolling. Ugo Gattoni presents it in his own way, adding his personal vision of the city. He outlines its contours, its skyscrapers, the vegetation and the long esplanade at the water's edge, and supplements it with a few surprising details: a foot sculpture atop a tower, a monumental hand emerging from the Hudson, and a host of little characters busying themselves here and there.