Video: Big bamboo at the Venice Biennale
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Art is like bamboo, it can grow, change and at the same time be surprisingly strong and reliable. This paradoxical idea was illustrated at the Venice Biennale 2011 with the help of the Big Bambu installation by the artist brothers Mike and Doug Starn (Mike + Doug Starn).
Bamboo is an amazing material that can be used in construction, in creativity (remember, for example, kites from Anna Rubin) and in many other spheres of human activity. It's incredibly sturdy and cheap, plentiful and growing rapidly. In general, a dream, not a material!
An example of this statement is an unusual installation called Big Bambu, presented recently by Mike and Doug Stern at the 2011 Venice Biennale.
This installation is a huge shapeless structure about twenty meters high, installed on the banks of the Grand Canal in Venice. Spectators can freely walk along this structure - special steps and paths are laid along it from the very bottom to the very top. In addition, there are several areas with cushions scattered across them where you can spend some time gazing at the views of Venice, reading books or just chatting with friends.
Just as bamboo can grow a couple of meters a day, the Big Bambu installation grows daily. The Stern brothers, together with a team of high-rise installers, make this creation of theirs even higher, even more, every night.
To create the Big Bambu installation, the Sterns and their assistants have already fastened more than two thousand bamboo stalks, both freshly cut and those that they used in their similar works before (for example, in a bamboo installation on the roof of the Mentropolitan Museum). These old stems they call "stem cells" from which their creativity grows. And Mike and Doug Stern consider their installations to be metaphors that reveal the transformation of contemporary art.
Big Bambu will grow daily until June 18, after which it will be closed to visitors and disassembled after a while.
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