Saturday 14 September 2013

This Is So Not Me,

with my fear of heights,


there is zero chance of me taking part in this sculpture, a suspension of transparent nets hovering 80 feet over the floor of an indoor courtyard makes for a surreal playground for the brave and a terrifying sight for people like me, it is a 2500-square-meter installation at the Kunstammlung  Nordrhein-Westfalen museum in Dusseldorf, Germany for visitors to explore, 


the interactive exhibit invites museum guests to walk out onto the cloud-like nets amidst transparent and mirrored spheres, for the sensation of hovering in some kind of dream space, the steel wire construction spans the museum’s glass cupola on three levels,


now this is the bit I would find really unnerving, 'when several people enter the audacious construction simultaneously, their presence sets it into motion, altering the tension of the steel wires and the intervals between the three mesh work levels,' states the museum on its website, thank you but no thank you, the installation was designed by artist Tomás Saraceno.

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