Video: In a big balloon. Flying Mansion by Ahmet Ogut
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
From Gulliver's Travels we know about flying city Laputu, inhabited by sages and scientists. But in Belgian Ghent from May 12, a kind of "branch" of this settlement appeared - installation Ahmet Ogut with the title Castle of vooruit.
Flying castles, houses and entire cities are a very common image in art. For example, on the site Culturology. Ru we reviewed similar levitating objects in the work of contemporary artists. The Turkish Kurd Akhmet Yogut can be attributed to the authors who created something similar, but, unlike his predecessors, he actually made the building fly.
His installation, Castle of Vooruit, is one of the world's largest works of art. After all, it is a huge balloon flying over Ghent, on top of which there is a whole castle.
True, this building is a sham; it is a copy of the actually existing Vurit castle (hence the name of the installation by Ahmet Yogyut - Castle of Vooruit), a cultural and historical center in Ghent.
But the appearance of the balloon itself is based on the famous painting by Rene Magritte "La chateau des Pyrenees", which depicts a huge flying rock with a medieval castle on top.
Ahmet Yogyut himself comments on his installation Castle of Vooruit with the desire to make viewers appreciate the tension between the past and the future, accessibility and inaccessibility, constancy and impermanence.
The Castle of Vooruit installation hovered over Ghent on May 12, becoming one of the objects of the TRACK: a contemporary city conversation festival.
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