Monday, January 30, 2012

Chris Burden’s 'Metropolis II'


I went to LACMA this past weekend with my brother and sister-in-law and niece.  Chris Burden's installation was mesmerizing- all the little cars whizzing around what feels like a bubbly shiny version of the 'future'...  Here's what LACMA says on their website:

Created by artist Chris Burden, Metropolis II (2010) is a complex, large-scale kinetic sculpture modeled after a fast-paced modern city. The armature of the piece is constructed of steel beams, forming an eclectic grid interwoven with an elaborate system of eighteen roadways, including a six-lane freeway, train tracks, and hundreds of buildings. 1,100 miniature toy cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour on the specially designed plastic roadways. Every hour, the equivalent of approximately 100,000 cars circulates through the sculpture.

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