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Video recording of the
process of creating the Sunset / Sunrise murals, commissioned for the lobby of the Times Square tower, in New York.
Sunrise (Chetumal)
Laquer oil paint on wood relief
6 x 1.8 mts
2025
Sunset (Cozumel)
Laquer oil paint on wood relief
4 x 2 mts
2025
Murals by Omar Barquet Studio (MX)
Comissioned murals by BXP (NYC)
Curated by Standard arts (USA / MX)
Represented by Arroniz Gallery (MX)
Located at Times Square Tower (NYC)
Video (NYC): Mark Richardson + César Vera (NYC)
Video + Edition: Guénola Bally (MX)
Music: mobygratis.com
Produced by Omar Barquet Studio + Standard Arts + Arroniz Gallery
Thanks:
Heather Kahn, Emily Mass, Jia Jia, Leah Hansen, Gustavo Arroniz, Virgínia Colwell, David Medina, Alan Valdivia, Natália Téliz , Eter Kitnemuk, Francisco Garcia, Maëlig Le Donge, Paulina Granados, Guénola Bally, Granada Semillero de Arte, Rodrigo Padilla, Elliot Trice, Claudia Cortinez, Pedro Wainer.
#omarbarquetstudio
#standardarts
#arronizartecontemporaneo
#muralpainting🎨
#contemporarypainting
✨ I’m thrilled to announce the opening of a new art installation in the heart of New York City!
A year after graduating from Bezalel Academy, I landed in New York as an intern at an architecture firm. We worked long hours—early mornings to late nights—alongside an incredible team of dreamers from all over the world. On those extra-long days, we’d sneak out for gelato at Eataly, just a few blocks away, in the beautiful building at 200 Fifth Avenue, right across from the Flatiron.
Fast forward a few years—life came full circle.
I was invited by curatorial firm Standart Arts to participate in a competition for a rotating art installation, commissioned by BXP, the real estate company that now owns the same Fifth Avenue building where I once caught my breath between CAD drafts and 3D models.
This work draws on my personal story—and the stories of countless others—who spend endless days and nights in the modern city, often disconnected from nature and from the quiet moments that give us meaning.
For over a month, I recorded live-streamed videos of the most beautiful sunrises and sunsets I could find—from Australia, Japan, the Caribbean, and beyond—and wove them into a seamless video. That footage is now projected through LED rear-projection onto the building’s walls.
The piece is inspired by the research of Dr. Alex Smalley at the University of Exeter, who studies how virtual nature—especially sunrises and sunsets—can positively impact mental well-being.
The installation will be on view through the end of the year, offering a moment of pause for every visitor and worker passing through—to catch the sunrise or sunset they might otherwise miss.
Huge thanks to the team that made this possible:
@_standardarts , my curator, for your trust and creative freedom
@uriel.guy - The project engineer and LED wizard
@sefibartov - refining details
@vika_libman & nir dellus - research support
@blaineduh - photography
@chromaticfas - Handling service
And to everyone who helped along the way!
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I was proposed for this commission with the mission: making the Times Square Tower lobby a welcoming backwater, a peaceful moment of transition after the exterior bustle at the Times Square area.
I proposed this diptych of paintings that depicts a couple of beautiful memories that I experienced growing up in the Mexican Caribbean: a Sunset in Cozumel 🌅 and the Sunrise in Chetumal, 🌄 where I was born.
I imagined this abstract pieces composed by an elegant geometric cadence that could depict the two moments that defines the cicle of the day, the awakening and the dawn in a poetic conversation.
I felt that if I bring those reminiscences of those contemplative landscapes, to one of the most dynamic and energized epicenters any city in the world, the proposal would settle perfectly as a subtle counterpoint of intensities.
I’m very proud of the amazing my team and collaborators had done, the quality we achieved and the harmony we managed to generate in the making of this murals, especially to my clients and partners for the trust and my family for their support .
🙌🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽
#sunsetsunrisemuralsnyc
#timessquaretowernewyork
#omarbarquetstudio
#standardarts
#galeriaarroniz
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All my gratitude to @artpack_mx + @mali_shipping for their professionalism on the art handling and logistics on this project 🙏🏽🙌🏽
Thanks to my partners @_standardarts + @galeriaarroniz for your trust on my work for this commission 🌅
And my Inmense gratitude to my hosts at @granada.semillero for their facilities and manly to my amazing team and family for their commitment and support during the intense process in producing this murals. ❤️🔥 Alan, Pancho, Eter, Natalia, David, Poly, Maey, Virginia y Kathy. 💗❤️🔥💗
I’ll appreciate all best the vibes from my friends and family for the upcoming installation days in NYC! 🗽
#omarbarquetstudio
#shippingworldwide✈️🌎
Since 2019, @_standardarts has curated site-specific art installations within the vitrines at 200 Fifth Avenue that conversed with Madison Square Park and its adjacent public space.
Over the years, we have had the pleasure of collaborating with some of our favorite artists
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Alex Schweder: Spring 2024 - present
Meli Harvey: Fall 2023
Subject Bureaux: Fall 2022
Eyes as Big as Plates: Fall 2021
Jacob M. Fisher: Fall 2020
Gustavo Prado: Fall 2019
#eataly #flatiron #curatingthebuiltenvironment #standardarts
Coming soon - Times Square Tower, NYC ⚡️
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@_standardarts curates and commissions @zhivazhivazhiva for the sky lobby.
Zhivago Duncan was born in Terre Haute, Indiana to a Syrian mother and a Danish father. His fluidity across materials and cultural signifiers reflects the relentlessness of an investigative mind. With freewheeling creativity spurred by his curiosity, Duncan’s lifelong impulse toward painting reflects his desire to contemplate, negotiate, and comprehend the “big picture”: the origins of sentient life and the universality of consciousness.
The artist locates his obsession with creation
myths to 2011, when his family’s plans to visit
their homeland for the first time were disrupted by the outbreak of the ongoing Syrian Civil War. Investigating the region from afar, Duncan became absorbed by historical accounts of life in the Fertile Crescent, as well as the mythologies that arose from its earliest civilizations – still relevant for their psychic potency today.
In 2007, Duncan received his BFA in painting from Chelsea College of art and Design London. His works are in the collections of the Perez Art Museum Miami, the Saatchi Collection London, the Barjeel Foundation Sharjah, the Olbricht Collection Berlin,
and various private collections worldwide.
#publicart #artandarchitecture #artinarchitecture #artnyc #timessquare
Coming soon - Times Square Tower, NYC ⚡️
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@_standardarts curates and commissions @omarbarquet for the entry lobby.
Omar Barquet is a contemporary visual artist working in Mexico. Omar’s art practice employs a diversity of materials and techniques spanning the genres of painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture, and performance.
#publicart #artandarchitecture #artinarchitecture #artnyc #timessquare
Asynchronous Lungs Singing
mirrors, fabric, electronics, light, and air, 2024.
The 200 5th Avenue building is a New York City landmark whose public lobby has been a temporarily home to a captivating installation by Performance Architect, Alex Schweder, curated by Standard Arts.
Schweder imagines the vestibule vitrines as windows gazing across a street into one another’s interior. Uncannily, these separate spaces are home to halves of one mirror ball. For Schweder, their moving reflections are a kind of language used to sing both longingly about the time they were a whole, and in gratitude of their independence. Swelling and sagging, animated by the fill and empty of air, the hemispheres reflect glimpses of all who pass between them.
#alexschweder
#performancearchitecture
#inflatables
#tiffanys
Asynchronous Lungs Singing
mirrors, fabric, electronics, light, and air. 2024.
The 200 5th Avenue building is a New York City landmark whose public lobby is now home to a captivating installation by Performance Architect, Alex Schweder, curated by Standard Arts.
Schweder imagines the vestibule vitrines as windows gazing across a street into one another’s interior. Uncannily, these separate spaces are home to halves of one mirror ball. For Schweder, their moving reflections are a kind of language used to sing both longingly about the time they were a whole, and in gratitude of their independence. Swelling and sagging, animated by the fill and empty of air, the hemispheres reflect glimpses of all who pass between them. Photo Credit: @richardbarnes
On view through autumn 2024, please visit!
#performancearchitecture #alexschweder #tiffanys
