Big Bambu at the Venice Biennale

Posted by Deepika singh on 08 Jun 2011 02:08 PM

An evolutionary and complex structure 'Big Bambú', is currently on display at the 54th venice biennale. American artist brothers Mike and Doug Starn made this hollow bamboo structure which features a spiraling and undulating trail leading visitors to an expansive lounge fifty feet above the Grand Canal. The organic and woven maze remains in a state of constant flux, complete but never at rest. The artists, along with a crew of eleven rock climbers, continue to lash together more than 3,000 bamboo poles, extending the pathway upwards and adding an additional fifteen to twenty feet of height until the dismantling.
Mike Starn says, \'it is a sculpture, but not a static sculpture. it\'s something that exists through the presence of the people inside it. it\'s 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, adds, '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.'

Source

Gallery:

Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS Highslide JS

 

Big Bambu at the Venice Biennale bamboo structure Big Bambu Grand Canal Venice Biennale Mike Starn Doug Starn
Share
 

Recent Comments

Philinda

You keep it up now, unedsrtand? Really good to know.

spidie

loving these photos. i was just reading about this on some other site. http://thesuperslice.com/?p=2220

Leave a reply