New floating sculpture hangs from ceiling inside Nelson Atkins Museum
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A new sculpture is taking flight at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. It’s called the Grand HexaNet.
Ninety red steel tubes are connected to weights and invisible wires, and the wires are connected to a motor up above them.
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A computer program pulls the wires up and down to move the shapes, and it looks like it is floating in the air.
The artist created a 38-minute dance with the tubes to display chaos and then order.
The former engineer, Elias Crespin, created his first soaring sculptures twenty years ago, and he shared with us his inspiration.
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“This idea of gentle movement that I had inside. That Many of us have inside. And as I expressed it, I found out that people connected to it. That’s wonderful,” Crespin said.
The soaring sculpture will officially start its dance tomorrow. You can find it in the lobby of the Bloch Building. Admission is free.
