November 5, 2024

Exhibition review: Big Bambú

Big Bambú is an installation that, from the 11th of December, was showing at the MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea) of Rome. Its authors, Doug and Mike Starn, wanted to create a different way of living and feeling the art, where thousands of bamboo poles make a sculpture that will reach 25 mts. The artists, along with a group of climbers, have built it.

 

Big Bambú has been created for the 50th anniversary of Enel, Italy’s largest energetic company (gas and electricity). The installation is within Enel Contemporanea project, which aims to promote the art and the idea of new energies. The 2012 is the sixth edition, for which they wanted to have a special space and an idea and innovative as the Starn twins.

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Enel Contemporanea project is, according to the company, “a public art project launched in 2007 to promote a reflection about Energy, through the universal language of art. The aim of Enel is to stimulate public opinion on a highly topical theme: the use of Energy in its various articulations, as a sustainable and renewable source.”

In previous projects there were works so interesting, like an interactive fountain by Jeppe Hein (2007), a waiting room sustainable at the Policlinico Umberto I by Jeffrey Inaba (2008), or a butterfly house by Bik Van der Pol, because of the MACRO inauguration(2010), etc..

 

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Mike and Doug Starn are American artists whose works are conceived as organizational structures, always evolving. They have been present in museums and galleries around the world, from the Guggenheim in New York to Yokohama Museum of Art. His work Big Bambú was presented in 2010 at the Metropolitan in New York  and later at the Biennale di Venezia in 2011, taking, in both cases, a resounding success.

 

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ENEL CONTEMPORANEA 2012 – Special Edition for the 50th anniversary of Enel

 

Big Bambú was on display from December 11th 2012 at the MACRO Testaccio (Piazza O. Giustiniani, 4) 

 

Original article: https://www.culturamas.es/blog/2013/03/27/big-bambu-en-el-macro-de-roma/

 

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