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+ | ====== Dingy airshaft is Brooklyn artist' | ||
+ | BY MIKE MCLAUGHLIN | ||
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+ | Tuesday, September 15th 2009, 7:22 AM | ||
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+ | Artist Patrick Ganino labors on his painting of a three-story tall Statue of Liberty, part of a 12-story high mural going up in the courtyard of two neighboring downtown Brooklyn towers. | ||
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+ | It's the biggest work of art in Brooklyn you won't get to see. | ||
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+ | An artist is painting a brightly colored 12-story high mural - concealed from the public eye - in the courtyard of two neighboring downtown Brooklyn towers. | ||
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+ | "This is just for the tenants, because they were looking out of their windows onto a crummy courtyard," | ||
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+ | The owner of the adjoining buildings at 186 Joralemon St. hatched the project for two reasons - kindness to his tenants and economic reality. | ||
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+ | "That space was not the best view, so I thought how can I make it more pleasant for the tenants," | ||
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+ | Plus, it could be easier to rent office space if the building is more attractive. "It was an artistic approach to how you market real estate in good or bad times," | ||
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+ | When Ganino puts the final touches on his work in three weeks, it will feature 40 iconic Big Apple sites, including the Cyclone roller coaster, the Brooklyn and Verrazano bridges and Central Park. | ||
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+ | He uses a mechanized platform to scale and descend the courtyard' | ||
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+ | Ganino, who is working with a friend on the mural, said the project is "way ahead of schedule" | ||
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+ | "We got 10 total days of rain, which was a nightmare for us," he said. "It was a little stressful." | ||
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+ | His past clients have included Judge Judy Sheindlin, the black-robed star of a TV court show. Ganino did decorative painting in her Greenwich, Conn., mansion. | ||
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+ | The Brooklyn buildings' | ||
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+ | Everyone else can monitor Ganino' | ||
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+ | source: [[http:// |