Bliss Dance

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Bliss Dance is a sculpture by the American artist Marco Cochrane . The approximately 12 meter high work of art shows a dancing, naked woman with bent legs and outstretched arms. It was shown for the first time during the Burning Man Festival 2010 in the Black Rock Desert . As of April 2011, the plastic was on the promenade of Treasure Island near San Francisco . It has been in Las Vegas since 2016 .

Emergence

Naked statues of women in moving poses are recurring elements in the work of the Italian-born artist. For Bliss Dance he first made a clay statue that served as a template for the metal statue.

construction

The approximately 3.1 ton plastic was made by hand by Cochrane and his team in a warehouse on Treasure Island; neither robots nor complex construction programs were used. The support structure consists of a metal frame that is connected to triangles at 55,000 welding points. A steel mesh is screwed onto it as an outer skin at 4,500 spherical points. Under the pillar, a star-shaped foot made of six steel girders serves as a foundation that can be buried.

Inside the construction, 27 multi-colored LED headlights are mounted that can be controlled via an Apple iPad . If the structure is illuminated from the inside, a transparent effect is created; if, on the other hand, it is irradiated from the outside, the steel mesh reflects such a large part of the light that the plastic appears massive.

restoration

Since December 11, 2012, the artist has been trying to get funds for the restoration of the plastic via the platform kickstarter.com , which has rusted due to environmental influences and whose electrical system is to be overhauled. For the restoration, Bliss Dance will not leave its location, which was approved until November 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Elinor Mills: Oops! Facebook mistakenly censors Burning Man art . In: CNET , September 15, 2010.
  2. ^ Joseph Keppel: Burning Man Metropolis: For the Ladies . In: NBC, September 12, 2010.
  3. ↑ kickstarter.com Bliss Dance: Restoration and Renewal , December 11, 2012.

Coordinates: 37 ° 49 ′ 13 ″  N , 122 ° 22 ′ 27 ″  W.