Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Adult Toy
clipped from news.yahoo.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A million pieces of stainless steel toy parts assembled into a nearly seven-story model skyscraper glimmered under the hot sun in New York on Tuesday, in American artist Chris Burden's latest project.
The 16,000-pound (7,250-kg) "poetic interpretation" of the 30 Rock Building at Rockefeller Center was made of replicated Erector set pieces from the toy created by A.C. Gilbert in 1912, Burden said.
"He was inspired by the buildings to build this toy system and I used this toy system to build a building," Burden said.
Reuters Photo: People walk past artist Chris Burden's 65-foot tall skyscraper sculpture, constructed out of toy parts,...
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