Antony Gormley installs "drawing in space" on Brooklyn pier
British artist Antony Gormley has created an installation in New York's Brooklyn Bridge Park comprising 18 kilometres of wound aluminium tubing.
Gormley created New York Clearing for global art initiative Connect, BTS, which likened the look of the looping metal tubes to a "drawing in space".
Rising 50 feet (15 metres) on Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 3 overlooking the East River, the structure comprises 18 kilometres (11 miles) of rectangular aluminium tubing arranged like a huge squiggle.
Each piece of tubing measures approximately one inch (25.4 millimetres) and is secured to several others using plastic and metal zip ties. The entire structure is fixed onto the concrete ground using steel spigots.
Gormley said he intended the project to create an interactive public scape at its site, which faces the Manhattan skyline and Brooklyn Bridge.
"I'm asking in our species' disappearance into high density, high-rise urban environments, can we use the space of all as a place like an agora, in which personal truth and subjective feeling can be transmitted from one individual to another"" Gormley said at the installation's opening event this week.
Visitors are encouraged to traverse through the piece by stepping over and walking under the tangled web of metal strips.
"This is an open work," Gormley added. "It doesn't have a skin, you're invited to enter in, you're invited in a way to meet others that you may not have met before."
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