Video: Endless Tower of Books in the Prague Library
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The fact that people devote less and less time to reading is a worldwide problem. She also touched the Czech Republic. Here, in order to popularize this process, the Prague City Library was created installation from books with the title Idiom … It was written by a Slovak artist Matej Kren.
For many centuries, it was books that were the main sources of knowledge and wisdom in the world. Now this function is increasingly moving to the Internet, but still only a small part of the printed matter created over hundreds of years has its own digitalized version. However, the latter does not really bother the mass consciousness - more and more people use the World Wide Web and less and less the library.
Concerned about the above tendencies and in the city library of Prague, one of the largest book depositories in Central Europe. Local workers are trying in every possible way to attract people to them. And one of them is the Idiom installation by artist Matej Kren.
This installation is a tower made of books. In the side of this building there is a special "window" where anyone can look.
If a person looks inside the tower, wherever he looks, up or down, he will see an endless column of books. The fact is that round mirrors are built into the base and ceiling of the Idiom installation. They create this effect.
The meaning of such a message is easy to understand - books give us an infinite amount of knowledge. You just need to make a little effort to open them.
I must say that Idiom is not the first such installation by the Slovak artist Matej Kren. On the site Kulturologia. Ru we have already talked about the Book Cell house in the Lisbon Center for Contemporary Culture, created by the same author.
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