Metropolis II Diecast Kinetic Art Installation | Chris Burden
Metropolis II Diecast Kinetic Art Installation | Chris Burden
Modern art isn’t something I tend to ‘get’ all that often. Not because I don’t appreciate art, but because so much of it is overpriced bits of junk that looks like it took a few hours on a Saturday afternoon to glue together, either that or it’s just an everyday household object painted white and put on a plinth upside down.
Metropolis II by Chris Burden is art, and it’s art that can be appreciated in a number of ways. You can marvel at the engineering and technology that keeps it running, you can reflect on how well the sculpture manages to capture the intense energy of a modern city, or you can just appreciate the fun factor of the whole thing.
Chris Burden has spent four years creating Metropolis II, and it features 1,100 die-cast model cars which whizz around the city’s 18 ‘highways’, while numerous electric trains and trams carry the invisible commuters to and from their futuristic office buildings. Every hour the sculpture manages 100,000 individual car journeys at a dizzying scale speed of up to 230 mph!
Metropolis II will be on permanent display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art later in 2011.
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