Big Ramp

The centerpiece of our NADA presentation is The Johann Joachim Winckelmann Sculpture Park (Murder and Executions), a monumental 27-panel monotype polyptych spanning nearly ten by twenty-two feet. The work stages the construction of an imagined sculpture park dedicated to Johann Joachim Winckelmann—the 18th-century Prussian scholar considered the father of art history, and a homosexual man in an era of state-sanctioned violence against queer people. Stong’s composition teems with over 200 figures—laborers, angels, snakes, cats—engaged in the chaotic, collective project of monument-building.