Jaume Plensa’s Echo, a towering 44-foot- tall sculpture of a young girl’s face in a dream state inspired by Greek mythology, premieres as the single largest monolithic work of art presented in history of Madison Square Park Art.

Situated on Madison Square Park’s Oval Lawn, Echo marks the Spanish artist’s long-awaited New York City public art debut.

Over the past three decades, the celebrated Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa has established an international reputation for creating public sculptures that are both monumental in scale and emotionally engaging in subject.

Working in a wide variety of materials, Mr Plensa has invigorated the practice of figurative sculpture with works that examine the intersection of the human form, language and communication, and global citizenship. Echo, a new site-specific sculpture for Madison Square Park, marks Plensa’s long-awaited New York City public space debut, and constitutes the largest monolithic work of art to be presented in Mad. Sq. Art’s seven-year history.

Echo, Mr Plensa’s commission for Madison Square Park, depicts a nine-year old girl from Plensa’s Barcelona neighbourhood, lost in a state of thoughts and dreams. Standing forty-four feet tall at the centre of the park’s expansive Oval Lawn, Echo’s towering stature and white marble-dusted surface harmoniously reflect the historic limestone buildings that surround the park.