This beautiful sculpture, Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks is the first of what should be a number of projects funded by the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission. Artist Alice Aycock designed the piece which stands on the east bank of the Cumberland River, across from downtown Nashville. Ghost Ballet is 100 feet high, 100 feet wide, and 60 feet deep, and, depending on the angle from which you're viewing it, it takes on a different appearance. It sits, by the way, on what remains of a crane from which the Nashville Bridge Company built and launched bridges.
Ghost Ballet is stationary, but Aycock says that it evokes "static movement," meaning you can see movement in its structure. Aycock, whose works have appeared in the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as at the Philadelphia Airport and San Francisco Public Library, used steel, industrial metals and neon to build the piece.
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10 comments:
Que susto ... pensei que estava a cair...
It's a nice and warm sculpture ... at first glance I thought of a broken heart!
on dirait un cœur de la saint Valentin. superbe.
It looks like a heart of the valentine's day. Superb.
Yes, it would have made a perfect Valentine's Day post.
I love it! I thought it was some sort of roller coaster ride. Very colorful.
Looks like a big, broken heart!
AWESOME! I would love to be able to work on that scale!! Thanks! :)
At first glance I thought it was some sort of an new theme park ride..interesting just the same, the color are rich in red which certiantly is an attention grabber.
I don't think I have ever seen anything like this before today. Nice photo too.
great piece of art! i love it....
RIP - Ghost Ballet: 05/04/2010
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