Double Carousel with Zöllner Stripes at the MACRO

When: December 2, 2011 - February 26, 2012

Location: Via Nizza 138 Rome, Italy

Carsten Höller is the winner of the 5th edition of Enel Contemporanea. His winning work Double Carousel with Zöllner Stripes will be on display in free access at the MACRO, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome in the space of the Enel Room on the ground floor, which is one of the biggest exhibition halls in Europe. Turning slowly and in opposite directions, the merry-go-rounds allow the public to get on and off easily, as if they were enormous mills or grindstones, where the people, sitting on top, come closer together and move further apart in constant rotation. Around the merry-go-rounds, criss-crossing lines (the “Zöllner Stripes”) create a destabilizing effect, where in spatial perception is deformed, creating a slowed-down vision of reality.

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