Thursday 22 January 2009

Quetzalcoatlus



Havana Biennale





Casagrande & Rintala

Architectonic installation at the 7th Havana Biennale of Contemporary Art 2000.

Located at the Facultad de Arqitectura Instituto Superior Politecnico Jose Antonio Echevarrira. 315 kg of steel, 10 km of fishing line.

During the day the sun will heat up the iron and the fishing lines are stretching. When the night falls the iron will chill out and the installation will come up thus making a slow motion flying movement according to the temperatures of the day.