Video: Glowing installation "Buckyball" in Madison Square, Manhattan
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
New York-based designer and sculptor Leo Villareal has created an impressive nine-meter tall monumental sculpture in the form of a luminous sphere. The spatial installation has long graced Madison Square, a park in Manhattan's Flatiron Quarter.
Villareal's installation is named "Buckyball" after the invention of the brilliant American architect and engineer Richard Buckminster Fuller. It was the architect's world-famous geodesic dome that became the prototype of modern sculpture in Villareal.
Surprisingly, another American artist also came up with the idea of reproducing a sphere in the form of a molecular compound. Spencer Finch's sculpture "Lunar" in many ways repeats Villareal's bukball, but the ideas of the authors are different. Spencer's first priority was to recreate the light of the moon in artificial conditions.
The sculpture of Villareal consists of two huge spheres in the form of a carbon molecule, with one of the spheres placed inside the other (the second sphere is half the size of the first). The sculpture looked especially impressive in the evening and at night, because the LED tubes that make up the structure are capable of reproducing sixteen million different shades.
In 1990, Leo Villareal graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in sculpture. In addition, the sculptor is a graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. The artist's exhibition activities are quite impressive. One of the most recent exhibitions in Villareal is an exhibition-review of works at the Art Museum of San Jose.
Among the master's performances, the light installation on the Oakland Bay Bridge, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the bridge, stands out. It was she who became one of the most ambitious installations of the sculptor, and it took about twenty-five thousand LEDs to create it.
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