German artist Cornelia Konrads creates mind-bending site-specific installations in public spaces, sculpture parks and private gardens around the world. Her work is frequently punctuated by the illusion of weightlessness, where stacked objects like logs, fences, and doorways appear to be suspended in mid-air, reinforcing their temporary nature as if the installation is beginning to dissolve before your very eyes. One of her more recent sculptures, Schleudersitz is an enormous slingshot made from a common park bench, and you can get a great idea of what it might be like to sit inside it with this interactive 360 degree view.[…]
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Is that a bench at the other end? I think I would not dare to sit down there … 😉
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Yep (but I think its anchored to the ground – take a look at the 360• link)!
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Hm, I don’t think it looks like being anchored to anything – but the “rubber bands” are not really tautened … but if things look too real, I chicken out, like those three dimensional paintings on the pavement, if they depict any kind of hole, I would walk around …
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I guess that’s a compliment to the artist …
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