Chris Burden's much anticipated Metropolis II has opened at Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), an entire futuristic city featuring 1,100 driverless cars, buses, and trains roaming through a six-lane freeway passing by buildings at a speed of 240 scale miles per hour, without traffic lights.
Burden, the same artist who brought to LACMA the Urban Light installation, was inspired by the Los Angeles traffic congestion, but conceptualized Metropolis II to any modern twenty-first century city. The sculpture's eclectic flow and continuous noise generate the frenetic stress of flowing cars at ten times its current rate.
The approximately 100,000 colorful cars circulate every hour through the sculpture and are powered by three electrical conveyor belts attracted by magnets to miniature cars speeding without making physical contact with the belts or other speeding cars.
Captivating and engaging, this futuristic kinetic sculpture, is a work of art anyone can relate to. On a long-term loan by LACMA Trustee Nicolas Berggruen, Metropolis II is on view on the first floor of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM), close to Chris Burden's Urban Light installation, and runs on weekends 90-minutes at a time.
Operating Schedule:
-Friday: 12:30-2 PM; 3-4:30 PM 5-6:30 PM; 7-8:30 PM
-Saturday and Sunday: 11:30-1 PM; 2-3:30; 4-5:30 PM
LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036. For more information call (323) 857-6000 or visit www.lacma.org
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