Many people may not know that the Metropolitan Museum of Art usually has rooftop exhibits during each year. Since I was attending the fashion talk, and it was a gorgeous day, I figured I would check out the new installation. Quite an interesting piece indeed. Here is some info from the Met's website regarding this unique work of art:
Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City
May 15, 2012–Through November 4, 2012 (weather permitting)
Artist Tomás Saraceno (born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1973) will create a constellation of large, interconnected modules constructed with transparent and reflective materials for the Museum's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Visitors may enter and walk through these habitat-like, modular structures grouped in a nonlinear configuration. Over the past decade, Saraceno has established a practice of constructing habitable networks based upon complex geometries and interconnectivity that merge art, architecture, and science. The interdisciplinary project "Cloud Cities/Air Port City" is rooted in the artist's investigation of expanding the ways in which we inhabit and experience our environment.
This is really such a lovely place especially on a gorgeous day!
They have cocktails, sandwiches and light fare to enjoy while viewing the artwork and views
These lovely ladies are doing it right !!
Those steps do not look very friendly to me! Yes, you can go up in the structure. I prefer staying on the ground!!
That would not be me but I would think the view would be out of this world!!
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Looks like a close packing of Buckminster Fullers Bucky balls. He was the inventor of spaceship earth and developed a lot of architectural geodesic forms. In the sixties there where hippies in the californian desert who practiced his ideas with constructions not unlike this one on the roof. Interesting and thanks for showing.
You are welcome Glad you enjoyed it!!
I think I must get there and see this in person .. thank you
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