{"id":15661,"date":"2020-03-25T18:20:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=15661"},"modified":"2020-03-25T18:21:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:21:36","slug":"agoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2020\/03\/25\/agoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Guerrilla Artist Gives MFA\u2019s Giant Baby Head A Coronavirus Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this moment of coronivirus concern, Peter Agoos thought the giant bronze baby heads by Spanish artist Antonio L\u00f3pez Garc\u00eda outside Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts could use some assistance.<\/p>\n

So last Sunday, the Boston artist says, he and his nephew Gabriel Fancher arrived at the museum’s\u00a0Fenway entrance with \u201ca surgical mask sized for one of the pair of bronze heads.\u201d They strapped it onto the 8-foot-tall head on the left, titled \u201cDay,\u201d<\/a> to \u201chelp to prevent the spread of the virus,\u201d Agoos says in an artist statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He calls the guerrilla art installation \u201cPPE for Antonio L\u00f3pez Garcia’s \u2018DAY\u2019\u201d\u2014PPE for personal protective equipment, I believe.<\/p>\n

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Peter Agoos’s \u201cPPE for Antonio L\u00f3pez Garcia’s \u2018DAY\u2019\u201d at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, March 22, 2020. (Courtesy Peter Agoos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The materials, Agoos writes, were left over from \u201cwRock wRap,\u201d his project for the October 2019 Fort Point Open Studios in which he covered boulders outside the Boston Children\u2019s Museum<\/a> in transparent industrial cling wrap the colors of the museum\u2019s logo.<\/p>\n

Agoos has created a number of public art projects in Boston over the years. \u201cTropical Fort Point\u201d floated more than a dozen palm trees in the Fort Point Channel between the Congress and Summer Street bridges in spring 2014. At the time, he described the floating artwork as a message about global warming: \u201cThis tongue\u2013in\u2013cheek preview of the effect of rising tides stakes a claim to the Channel wetscape as an unexploited green space.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to his art, Agoos runs Agoos D-zines, a firm that does event production, exhibition and set design, and graphic design.<\/p>\n

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Peter Agoos with his guerrilla art installation \u201cPPE for Antonio L\u00f3pez Garcia’s \u2018DAY\u2019\u201d at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, March 22, 2020. (Courtesy Peter Agoos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Peter Agoos’s \u201cPPE for Antonio L\u00f3pez Garcia’s \u2018DAY\u2019\u201d at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, March 22, 2020. (Courtesy Peter Agoos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Peter Agoos’s \u201cPPE for Antonio L\u00f3pez Garcia’s \u2018DAY\u2019\u201d at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, March 22, 2020. (Courtesy Peter Agoos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Peter Agoos’s \u201cPPE for Antonio L\u00f3pez Garcia’s \u2018DAY\u2019\u201d at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, March 22, 2020. (Courtesy Peter Agoos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Peter Agoos’s \u201cPPE for Antonio L\u00f3pez Garcia’s \u2018DAY\u2019\u201d at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, March 22, 2020. (Courtesy Peter Agoos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this moment of coronivirus concern, Peter Agoos thought the giant bronze baby heads by Spanish artist Antonio L\u00f3pez Garc\u00eda outside Boston\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts could use some assistance. So last Sunday, the Boston artist says, he and his nephew Gabriel Fancher arrived at the museum’s\u00a0Fenway entrance with \u201ca surgical mask sized for one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[37,706,447,216,714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15661"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15674,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15661\/revisions\/15674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}