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The open pyramid, 2016 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The open pyramid, 2016
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The open pyramid, 2016 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The open pyramid, 2016
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The open pyramid, 2016 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The open pyramid, 2016
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The open pyramid, 2016 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The open pyramid, 2016
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
SHIMURABros contemplate ‘The open pyramid’, 2016, from Eliasson’s solo exibition at the Long Musuem, Shanghai, ‘Emptiness is not nothing at all’, 2016. Reflective panels, mounted on an aluminium frame and suspended from a twenty-metre-high concrete vault ceiling in the museum, formed a large square pyramid that floated two and a half metres above the museum’s floor. A spotlight positioned above the pyramid’s open apex cast a bright circle of light through the pyramid onto the floor below.

SHIMURAbros are the filmmaking sibling duo Yuka and Kentaro Shimura. Their work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the National Arts Center, Tokyo; the National University of Singapore’s Centre for the Arts, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; The Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries in New York; the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; and Museums Quartier, Vienna.
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Reflective panels, mounted on an aluminium frame and suspended from a twenty-metre-high concrete vault ceiling in the Long Museum in Shanghai, formed a large square pyramid that floated two and a half metres above the museum’s floor. A spotlight positioned above the pyramid’s open apex cast a bright circle of light through the pyramid onto the floor below. Stepping into this circle of light, visitors could look up into the pyramid’s mirrored interior. The angled walls reflected floor, spotlight, and viewer vertically rotated, producing the illusion of a virtual cubic space.

Artwork details

Title

The open pyramid

Year

2016

Materials

Steel, aluminium, foil mirrors, wood, paint (black), spotlight