第54界意大利威尼斯双年展展品
大竹子雕塑正在修建中，其是一个50英尺高的空心竹塔，通过螺旋式坡道到达上方天台，俯瞰运河。这是一个矛盾性质的作品，它完整，但它未完成。6月18日将截止施工，6月3日时就已使用超过3000根竹竿。
Mike Starn说：“这不是一个静态雕塑，它通过人的存在而存在，我们和攀援的人们，参与它的一部分。我们建设一个持续，增长的塔，期间有一个关联的混沌哲学，每一件事物都在成长和演变并将其呈现。这属于哲学范畴。”
从6月18日起，大竹子将面向公众免费开放，每周7天，从上午10点到晚上7点。
Starn的工作室网站将对其效果进行实时更新。你也可以成为大竹子的FACEBOOK 迷。
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非常感谢设计方Starn Studio将项目图片和项目图片授权gooood发行。
Appreciation towards Starn Studio for providing the following description:
Photo courtesy Doug + Mike STARN
MIKE + DOUG STARN, BIG BAMBÚ
a special project of GLASSTRESS
Official Collateral Exhibition of the 54th Venice Biennale
On Public View May 29th through June 18th
Next to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 700 Dosoduro
On the Grand Canal, boat arrivals welcome
Venice, Italy, June 1, 2011— Mike and Doug Starnʼs Big Bambú is being
presented as an official collateral exhibition of the 54th Venice Biennale, a special
project of GLASSTRESS. The first exhibition of the Starnsʼ Big Bambú series was
on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last year and ranked
4th in the world for total attendance of a contemporary art exhibition in 2010 and
was the 9th highest attended exhibit in the entire history of the Metropolitan. Big
Bambú is being installed in the courtyard of Casa Artom next to the Grand Canal
and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. This is the first time the site has been
used as a location for a collateral exhibition since the famous triumph of American
art in 1964 as the annex to the American Pavilion when Robert Rauschenberg
won the Grand Prize.
The central aspect of the ongoing sculpture is a 50 foot-tall hollow tower of
bamboo, with a trail spiraling up and reaching to a 20 foot-wide roof top lounge
more than 50 feet above the Grand Canal. The work embodies a contradictory
nature: it is always complete, yet remains unfinished, the sculpture is never at rest.
The Starns and a crew of 11 rock climbers from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
installation will continue to lash together more than 3,000 bamboo poles,
sustaining the spiral upwards and adding an additional 15 to 20 feet of height until
closing day on June 18th. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection has invited the
Starns to build a bridge from inside Big Bambú to their roof terrace.
Mike Starn noted, “It is a sculpture, but not a static sculpture. Itʼs something that
exists through the presence of the people inside it. Itʼs an organism that we, and
the crew of rock climbers, are just a part of—helping to move it along. We are
constructing an ongoing tower, growth and change remain invariable, and they
are a constant.” Doug Starn, added, “We have a philosophy of chaotic
interdependence; of how every complex thing grows and evolves (animal, social
structures, etc…), and Big Bambú actually physically presents it, it is philosophical
engineering. Everything depends upon one another and the loads are distributed
throughout, the interdependence is natural and fluid. There is not too much weight
applied to any one thing.”
As Big Bambú is about the continual evolution of living things, in addition to 2,000
fresh poles harvested from a farm in France, Doug and Mike have cut several of
the fragments out of the Metropolitan Museum installation in New York. The
Starns explain: “We are grafting a new Big Bambú and using 1,000 poles from the
Met as stem cells, the Venice piece will still be the Metropolitan piece but also a
new one, Big Bambú is always growing and changing and becoming something
new — as we all are.” Beginning on June 18th, the team of rock climbers will
spend roughly two weeks dismantling Big Bambú. Poles from both the
Metropolitan and Venice installations will be used again as stem cells in future
installations or as stand alone sculptures, while others will be stored in Europe or
shipped back to the United States.
Doug and Mike Starn are American artists, identical twins, born 1961. First
receiving international attention at the 1987 Whitney Biennial, the Starns are
primarily known for working conceptually with photography for the past two and a
half decades. Concerned largely with chaos, interconnection and
interdependence, time, nature, biology and physics, they continue defying
categorization, effectively combining traditionally separate disciplines such as
photography, sculpture, architecture and site-specific projects. Their most recent
installation was Big Bambú :You Canʼt, You Donʼt and You Wonʼt Stop, the 2010
roof garden exhibition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Throughout
the 6-month exhibit, the Starns and their crew of 10-16 rock climbers continuously
lashed and sculpted over 7,000 bamboo poles, a performative architecture of
randomly interconnected vectors forming a section of a seascape with a 70ʼ
cresting wave above Central Park. Big Bambú suggests the complexity and
energy of an ever-growing and changing living organism.
The Starns were represented by Leo Castelli from 1989 until his death in 1999.
Their work has been the object of numerous museum and gallery exhibitions
worldwide. The artists are currently working on a new monograph for the third
installment of their exhibition Gravity of Light scheduled in the U.S. in the fall of
2012. Their pieces are represented in important public and private collections
internationally. They have received two National Endowment for the Arts Grant;
The International Center for Photographyʼs Infinity Award for Fine Art Photography
in 1992; and, artists in residency at NASA in the mid-nineties.
Getting There
Big Bambú is on view to the public in Venice, Italy through June 18th. The
exhibition is open to the public free of charge, seven days a week from
10am – 7pm. Casa Artom, currently the home of the Venice campus of
Wake Forest University, is located on the Grand Canal, next to the Peggy
Collection, 700 Dorsoduro. Vaporetto 1 line, Salute or Academia stops.
Big Bambú visuals on the Starn Studio website (www.starnstudio.com) will be
regularly updated, showing the evolution of the artwork and its incarnations. You
can also become a fan of Big Bambú on Facebook.
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