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On Tuesday afternoon, I took a self-guided tour of the Aria Fine Art Collection, which spans the Aria property itself and several neighboring sites/buildings in CityCenter. I had difficulty finding Stop 7 on the tour (I ended up finding it later in the day), so I proceeded to Stop 8 on the tour: this enormous sculpture located in Harmon Circle, near the entrance to the Vdara. The work is titled ''Big Edge'' and was created by artist Nancy Rubins. I ended up taking several shots of the sculpture from different angles; this one faces south toward one of the Aria's hotel wings and its meeting/convention facilities.
A few details on the work according to the Aria Fine Art Collection mobile app:
Big Edge
Nancy Rubins
(American, b. 1952)
2009
Stainless steel and aluminum
Big Edge is a visually stunning, large-scale sculpture cantilevering 75 feet in length and 57 feet in width. Finessed into a gravity-defying form that is both delicately balanced and precisely engineered, Big Edge is supported by a steel armature and built of aluminum rowboats, canoes, and other small vessels. These boats are connected with thousands of pounds of stainless steel wire cable forming a web-like structure, where compression and tension create what Buckminster Fuller referred to as tensegrity, making the whole stronger than the parts. Each boat was precisely placed according to Rubins' direction based on its color, shape, and structural contribution to the whole.
Rubins is a sculptor known for seemingly precarious works created from salvaged, industrial consumer goods, including monumental sculptures consisting of airplane parts, electrical appliances, mattresses, and cakes, as well as boats. Her work has been represented in major exhibitions in the United States and Europe.
i know it seems like a meta nightmare to depict a person in the act of depicting themselves making yet another thing but how many standard stations did ruscha do over the years? sometimes you gotta keep working through it, man. this person is doing a self-portrait with a 30x36 camera that shows them making a thistle cyanotype that they'll use to cover a tensegrity wig-wam.
A truchet tile that converts any triangulated surface into a design for a diamond-pattern tensegrity.
Just a little bamboo tensegrity tower- for step-by-step instructions see ropesandpoles.blogspot.com/2006/03/step-by-step-tensegrit...
Tensegrity moving installation -From the Jazz Fest 2005 promo
Wearable installation - Cine-MAtic Cocoons
or the so called Throbbing LO - a tensegrity structure floating around the human body Two friends the mime artists: LILI and SASHO:)
the Tensegrity structure appeared for a first time at the Unclothed in Cleveland in 2004
Brisbane. Architect: Cox Rayner. Structure: ARUP
Largest Tensegrity Bridge in the world. Tensegriy term originally coined by Buckmister Fuller
Illuminated installation studying the protons that make up light, through the use of tensegrity shapes. Work by Jan Flook.
Wyndham Cultural Centre.
Werribee.
Victoria.
On Tuesday afternoon, I took a self-guided tour of the Aria Fine Art Collection, which spans the Aria property itself and several neighboring sites/buildings in CityCenter. I had difficulty finding Stop 7 on the tour (I ended up finding it later in the day), so I proceeded to Stop 8 on the tour: this enormous sculpture located in Harmon Circle, near the entrance to the Vdara. The work is titled ''Big Edge'' and was created by artist Nancy Rubins. I ended up taking several shots of the sculpture from different angles; this one faces west toward the adjacent parking garage.
A few details on the work according to the Aria Fine Art Collection mobile app:
Big Edge
Nancy Rubins
(American, b. 1952)
2009
Stainless steel and aluminum
Big Edge is a visually stunning, large-scale sculpture cantilevering 75 feet in length and 57 feet in width. Finessed into a gravity-defying form that is both delicately balanced and precisely engineered, Big Edge is supported by a steel armature and built of aluminum rowboats, canoes, and other small vessels. These boats are connected with thousands of pounds of stainless steel wire cable forming a web-like structure, where compression and tension create what Buckminster Fuller referred to as tensegrity, making the whole stronger than the parts. Each boat was precisely placed according to Rubins' direction based on its color, shape, and structural contribution to the whole.
Rubins is a sculptor known for seemingly precarious works created from salvaged, industrial consumer goods, including monumental sculptures consisting of airplane parts, electrical appliances, mattresses, and cakes, as well as boats. Her work has been represented in major exhibitions in the United States and Europe.
Just a little bamboo tensegrity tower- for step-by-step instructions see ropesandpoles.blogspot.com/2006/03/step-by-step-tensegrit...