Some times it’s the building, not the art in the building that attracts people. Located on the bank of the River Nervion, it is a truly a work of art. Designed by the American architect Frank Gehry, it is brilliant especially on a brilliant day.
At the entrance to the Museum sits Jeff Koons’ Puppy. A 12.m, 16 ton monster of a West Highland Terrier. A behemoth carpeted in bedding plants, Puppy employs the most saccharine of iconography—flowers and puppies—in a monument to the sentimental. Imposing in scale, its size both tightly contained and seemingly out of control (it is both literally and figuratively still growing), and juxtaposing elite and mass-cultural references (topiary and dog breeding, Chia Pets and Hallmark greeting cards), the work may be read as an allegory of contemporary culture. Purchased by the museum in 1997 for $1.2 it is currently valued at 4500% of that figure.
Is the camera twisted? The photographer? Or the building?
Richard Serra’ A Matter of Time is an installation of huge steel plates.
This exhibit was interactive. A 3-4 darkened hallway is strung with hundreds of ceiling to floor string covered in black feathers. The darkness is absolute and the texture was pure softness. Then, suddenly without any hint, your hands break free into the light. I’m sure that I more than duplicated the smile on this guy’s mug. Now I loved, it but I hadn’t really read the sign of explanation before entering, had I might my level of apprehension got up? If you panic in dark places or ancient tombs, this might not be fore you or it might be a game changer.
Outside the place is pretty interesting too.
Starting with another from Jeff Coons, Tulips
I think that there are 9 of these Louise Bourgeois presentations world wide. Maman is a 9m/30′ spider.
Santiago Calatrava’s Pedestrian Bridge
Guggenheim exterior
Tall Tree & The Eye is by Anish Kapoor
Although it is known as La Salve Bridge, its official name is the ‘Prince and Princess of Spain Bridge’.
This just made Bilbao an even more interesting destination.
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