Video: Station, ceiling, clouds. Unusual installation in London
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the famous song "Leap Year" there are words that there is nothing more beautiful than sitting on a cloud and, hanging your legs down, call each other by name. It seems, installation "Clouds and Meteors", not so long ago installed at the St. Pancras railway station in London, - this is a real flight of imagination to transcendental distances, heavenly gatherings and conversations about nothing.
The aerial installation became a real explosion of emotions at an unremarkable train station: snow-white clouds instantly transformed the gray walls. "Clouds and Meteors" is the work of British sculptors Lucy and Jorge Orta. Almost a million travelers visit the station every week, and now they have another good reason to cheer themselves up on the road.
Designers are confident that romantic sculptures will help people get distracted from their problems for a moment. It is no coincidence that such dissimilar concepts as meteorites and clouds were combined in one project. The creators of the installation explain that the word “meteor” itself has an ancient Greek origin, and its etymology goes back to the designation of something that rose from the earth to the sky. Clouds, in turn, are also traditionally perceived as “mediators” between reality and fantasy, between heaven and earth (remember at least the popular expression “soaring in the clouds”). Lucy and Jorge Horta admit that in creating their masterpiece, they drew inspiration from Renaissance frescoes, in which clouds play a primary role, uniting laymen and prophets, angels and gods.
Clouds often attract the attention of artists and sculptors, we regularly write about this on the site Kulturologiya.ru. Other attempts to create man-made "hmars" include the Nimbus installation, the Clouds and Projecto Nuvem projects.
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