lagalleria.gallery
Splash Buildings
2009
Height 20 feet
Galvanized steel, steel rod, acrylic rod, globes, acrylic sphere, cast fiberglass, fasteners
Installation with seven elements
From a recent interview: Mr. Oppenheim: And I said, Okay, let’s explore phenomena.
Let’s see if there is a program out that could replicate in the virtual world the dynamics of phenomena like a water drop or an upheaval or an explosion and things like that.
I was after—I thought my show in Germany should be architecture, ideas for buildings.
And one idea was to approach a building as if it were the outcome of an event, an event being like an explosion or a water drop or a flood or a tidal wave.
And that led up to this Splash Building, this building that theoretically would be formed by the simple event of a water drop, a big teardrop.
Here’s the teardrop again splashing upwards.
Scolacium Park, Catanzaro, Italy
Splash Buildings
2009
Height 20 feet
Galvanized steel, steel rod, acrylic rod, globes, acrylic sphere, cast fiberglass, fasteners
Installation with seven elements
From a recent interview: Mr. Oppenheim: And I said, Okay, let’s explore phenomena.
Let’s see if there is a program out that could replicate in the virtual world the dynamics of phenomena like a water drop or an upheaval or an explosion and things like that.
I was after—I thought my show in Germany should be architecture, ideas for buildings.
And one idea was to approach a building as if it were the outcome of an event, an event being like an explosion or a water drop or a flood or a tidal wave.
And that led up to this Splash Building, this building that theoretically would be formed by the simple event of a water drop, a big teardrop.
Here’s the teardrop again splashing upwards.
Scolacium Park, Catanzaro, Italy