DOHA.- Marlborough Gallery announces the installation of Other Worlds, 2014, one of Tom Otterness’s largest public projects to date, at the new Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar. The Qatar Museum Authority commissioned Otterness to create this monumental series of bronzes as part of an effort to “extend art beyond its traditional museum model, and into public spaces.”

Spread throughout the activity nodes in passenger terminal C of the Hamad Airport are a series of eight interactive bronze sculptures. These playgrounds are in three locations at the airport: the first location features the tower figures and two reclining cylinder figures; the second features a sitting cylinder figure and another reclining cylinder figure; and the third location features a sitting cone and sitting sphere facing each other. There are also many small, six inch figures that reflect the international travellers that use the airport, placed on various areas of the larger figures. For the installation, Tom Otterness worked closely with Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry in Rock Tavern, New York to cast this series of large-scale bronze figures that appear to be in play with one another. With slides and seats for limbs and play-pen-like chambers for torsos, these figures invite visitors to the airport - both children and adults - to engage, interact and find recreational enjoyment in the sculptures.

Tom Otterness is widely known for his public installations both in the United States and abroad. Most notable among these are a series of projects in New York City: a public playground, entitled The Real World, 1992 , at the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City; Life Underground, 2004, commissioned by the Metropolitan Transport Authority and Arts for Transit and located at the 14th Street and 8th Avenue station; Playground, 2006, a monumental interactive bronze figure installed as a playground in the Silver Tower Apartment complex located between 10th and 11th Avenue and 42nd Street; The Marriage of Real Estate and Money, 1996 at Roosevelt Island;. Otterness’s public art projects can also be seen in other cities in the United States and include the courthouses in Minneapolis, Portland and Sacramento; as well as the Memorial Art Gallery’s Centennial Sculpture Park in the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York which features Creation Myth, 2012. Further installations can be seen abroad in The Netherlands, Fairy Tales by the Sea, 2006, commissioned by Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands; Die Überfrau, commissioned by the State Library in Munster, Germany; and Free Money, 2010 in the Byuksan Blooming Apartment Complex, Seoul, Korea.

Marlborough Gallery has represented the work of Tom Otterness for nearly 20 years. His sculptures are in the collections of numerous museums including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai; Beelden aan Zee Museum, The Hague; the IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Originally from Wichita, Kansas, Otterness has been a resident of New York City since the 1970s and works in Brooklyn.