February 11, 2010

Big Bambú installation to take over Met's roof garden

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rooftop garden this summer will host a “Big Bambú” a sprawling site-specific installation designed by Doug and Mike Starn, the museum announced today.

The bamboo structure, which will go on display April 27 in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, will change throughout the exhibition, ultimately measuring 100 feet long by 50 feet wide by 50 feet high, according to the museum’s news release.

While the structure can be viewed from the garden as part of regular museum admission, special tickets will be made availble for small groups to walk through the inside of the artwork, “roughly 20 to 40 feet above the main level of the Roof Garden.”

“We need to make it so big in order to make us—all of us—feel small—or at least to awaken us to the fact that individually we’re not so big as we think. Once we’re really aware of our true stature we can feel a part of something much more vast than we could ever have dreamed of before,” Doug Starn said in the news release announcing the summer project.

Previously, the twin brothers installed a project by the same name in Beacon, N.Y.

Typically the museum gives over its entire roof garden to one artist each summer. The martini bar will also return to the roof garden for 2010.

Image source: Starn Studios/October 2008.

Earlier: Roxy Paine’s ‘Maelstrom’ opens on Met roof for summer
Koons’ ‘Balloon Dog’ marks its territory on Met roof
Frank Stella gets the Met rooftop for the summer

February 11, 2010 11:48 PM in Museums, Sightsology, Tours, Upper East Side

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