An art installation made from 2500-square metres of mesh allows up to
ten people to float on 26-foot diameter air-filled PVC balls, as well as play
spider by stalking people below. The project called 'In Orbit' put together by
Thomas Saracen uses three-tonnes of netting.
It took three-years to compose the impressive structure, which is located at over the giddy-heights of three floors of the K21 Standhaus museum in Dusseldorf, Germany. Located at over the giddy-heights of three floors of the K21 Standhaus museum in Dusseldorf, Germany the artist studies the techniques used by spiders to create their webs when he designed the spectacular piece of interactive artwork. The hanging gardens of Dusseldorf: 80ft art installation creates giant human 'spiderweb' with 2500-square metres of mesh.
It took three-years to compose the impressive structure, which is located at over the giddy-heights of three floors of the K21 Standhaus museum in Dusseldorf, Germany. Located at over the giddy-heights of three floors of the K21 Standhaus museum in Dusseldorf, Germany the artist studies the techniques used by spiders to create their webs when he designed the spectacular piece of interactive artwork. The hanging gardens of Dusseldorf: 80ft art installation creates giant human 'spiderweb' with 2500-square metres of mesh.
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three storey structure allows up to ten people to crawl on web. 3-tonnes of netting took three-years to
compose into impressive structure. 'In Orbit' is the work of Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno. Hanging 80 feet in the air this huge installation has turned art lovers
into 'spiders' by recreating their intricate webs with 2500-square metres of
mesh. The three storey structure allows up to ten people to float on
gigantic air-filled PVC balls, as well as play spider by stalking people below.The
three-tonnes of netting took three-years to compose into the impressive
structure, called 'In Orbit' by engineers under the direction of Argentinian
artist Tomas Saraceno. Mr Saraceno explained the thinking behind his work.'Each
individual strand not only holds visitors in place, but weaves them into
itself, at the same time allowing them to act,' he said.'It's like an
outstretched network with an open character.
This is a design where a person can be like Human 'spiders' living on
the edge. The artist studied the techniques used by spiders to create their
webs when he designed the spectacular work of interactive artwork. Mr Saraceno
said 'Each individual strand not only holds visitors in place, but weaves them
into itself, at the same time allowing them to act'` 'An open, cosmic, woven
structure that becomes densified, ramified, before flowing out into lines again
at its edges. 'The web is singular in its relationship to the existing
architecture.' Visitors must be at least 12-years-old when they choose to take
to the heights of the exhibition when it opens on June 22nd 2013.