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A Sculpture of Our Transportation Future
Is the new inauguration opening this weekend at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art . Created by artist Chris Burden, the crumble is a massive mini-city of towering buildings interwoven and surrounded at all heights by infinitesimal street-like tracks that carry 1,100 toy cars straight away and noisily around, like blood cells in a network of veins.Prepossessing up about 500 square feet and climbing at some points virtually ten feet in the air, the sculpture is part machine, part momentum and part dystopian revenant of the future of car travel. The tiny cars are pulled up three six-lane conveyor belts to the top of the sculpture and then let at liberty to drive down the curving streets, zipping around bends and turns of roadway that under- and over-antiquated each other in a frenetic weave of movement.
It’s an motor-like mass of movement that always seems on the edge of adversity. But it operates in a smooth and ultimately efficient excess. LACMA director Michael Govan calls it "an epic try." A sign of its complexity, the sculpture will only run on Fridays and weekends in hour-and-a-half sessions – with a vulnerable attendant on hand to prevent any major blockages.
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A Sculpture of Our Transportation Future
That these are only toy cars in a muscular and elaborate kinetic sculpture is at least to some extent comforting. That they are also a vision of a maybe-not-so-illogical future is a little worrying. Capital II is the new installation opening this weekend at A Sculpt That Predicts LA's Future?all 10 gossip articles »
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