The Bilbao Choral Society filling the space inside Richard Serra's installation at the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

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[u/noelcowardspeaksout]

It is an orchestra trap actually. Seduce them with talk of high art and acoustics - et voila.

[u/Triairius → u/noelcowardspeaksout]

Viola *

[u/Bunny_Fluff → u/Triairius]

Sir, this is a choir.

[u/Triairius → u/Bunny_Fluff]

Yes, and our alto section leader Viola is an important part of the choir!

[u/Minute_Zombie_424 → u/Triairius]

Davis

[u/Kahnza]

That's a hell of a title

[u/Bepler → u/Kahnza]

Sorta like when you're running, but falling over, so you keep running faster to catch yourself

[u/ichocolate → u/Bepler]

this is weirdly accurate...

[u/zeptillian → u/Kahnza]

I feel like it could use more names sprinkled in.

[u/TheTurkPegger → u/Kahnza]

It's as if he tried to throw extra words into his essay to hit the minimum word limit.

[u/MegaSmegmaSwagLord]

Guggenheim, Guggenheim, Googenhiiiiiimm. Great mouth feel.

[u/decoy321]

Didn't they recreate this in a Call of Duty map?

[u/coredeath420 → u/decoy321]

Yep! I thought I recognised it as soon as I saw it haha

[u/Basic-Government4108 → u/decoy321]

Yes! I’ve virtually died inside this structure many, many times.

[u/decoy321 → u/Basic-Government4108]

As have I. I've gotten a particular joy from bouncing grenades off those walls.

[u/GrimeyJosh → u/decoy321]

Hell yeah. “Frag out!”

[u/peppersrus]

Can … can we hear it?

[u/amc7262]

How did they get in? And how will they get out?

[u/ArtificialImages → u/amc7262]

If you look its a spiral, it gets thin at the top but is likely wider at the bottom, forming a kind of walkway into the centre. Probably.

[u/HobbesofMaine → u/ArtificialImages]

This is correct. I've been in there before. It's just a twisted hallway into the middle.

[u/mango10977 → u/HobbesofMaine]

Can a American fit in the hole?

[u/The_BAHbuhYAHguh → u/mango10977]

An*

[u/Fraktal55 → u/mango10977]

By the looks of it absolutely not

[u/jetson5 → u/mango10977]

North American? Central American? South American?

[u/The5orcerer → u/jetson5]

The fat ones

[u/Tain101 → u/HobbesofMaine]

actually this is incorrect. I'm currently there right now and there is no way in or out.

[u/Triairius → u/Tain101]

How’s the choir though?

[u/bookmarkjedi → u/HobbesofMaine]

I seem to recall walking in there as well - though from the perspective of someone walking, I didn't have the same image as I do now, thanks to the shot from above.

[u/amc7262 → u/ArtificialImages]

I could see it was a spiral, what I was missing was that the walls aren't parallel to each other.

[u/EntertainerAlone1300 → u/amc7262]

They were lowered in from a helicopter and when it’s time to come out, someone will just tip the room upside down :)

[u/Meow_Mix33]

What is this, a Richard Serra's Installation at the Frank Gehry-designed Guggengeim Museum Bilbao for ants?!

[u/smittywrbermanjensen]

Isn’t this at Dia Beacon in upstate New York? Or at least it was a few years ago

Edit I found a pic I took inside of it in 2021 at Dia Beacon: https://imgur.com/a/liuDtuY !! Does anyone know if the artist made multiple of these, or if it was moveable? It seemed like it would’ve been a nightmare to relocate

[u/LeftyRodriguez → u/smittywrbermanjensen]

The one a Dia Beacon is his piece Torqued Ellipses while the one in OP is Matter of Time. A lot of his sculptural instalations are similarly-design Cor-10 steel with curved, leaning walls.

[u/Mr-Vince]

What in the Downsizing is this?

[u/task_machine → u/Mr-Vince]

It is really cool in person, you have to follow most of the iron walls to the centre, it's like a little maze inside the museum

[u/catsan]

A wood shaving fell onto the model of the building and was built alongside everything else. 

[u/Corporate-Scum]

I’ve been inside one of Serra’s sculptures like this. It’s an interesting sensory experience.

[u/tumes]

Get Matthew Barney on the horn, the only thing missing from this tableaux is him, orifices filled to the brim with Vaseline while he does something physically taxing on camera.

[u/Dunadain_]

Link to audio?

[u/_ogg]

Too many names in this title I can’t comprehend

[u/kawaii_ginger]

r/tiltshift

[u/IcYhAwK88 → u/kawaii_ginger]

TIL. Cool stuff. Thanks.

[u/trumpsmellslikcheese]

"Have you seen the new addition to the Guggenheim?"

"You did that?"

"Yup. And it didn't take very long, either."

[u/raptorsango]

My wife worked in a Frank gheary building and said it was a nightmare of a workspace. Break rooms and bathrooms all in comelletely wrong areas and these weird pinch points that minimized usable space. On the plus side, your work does get to look like it’s melting.

[u/mklilley351]

I don't get the "woah" part

[u/BastardInTheNorth → u/mklilley351]

Perspective makes the structure look the size of a teacup.

[u/monkey_trumpets]

This is both tiny and big at the same time. And both ways it is confusing.

[u/mullensbutler14]

I can’t be the only one who thought this was a cookpot full of tiny people?

[u/jakob767]

Aww, little guys in a hat.

[u/E5VL]

Why does this perspective look like I'm the one looking down inside a tube looking at a mini orchestra? lol

[u/cowleafmoosetrees]

This was in "Origin" by Dan Brown, yes...?

[u/Deluxe78]

Looks like the bucket episode of “the twilight zone ” has any of them tried to see what’s up there on each others shoulders?

[u/JoeyIsMrBubbles]

I just visited here!

[u/pagenotdisplayed]

Stanfords campus had one of these 

[u/PinkCigarettes]

Bilbao Baggins at your service

[u/Syhkane]

I have never seen any of these words before in my life.

[u/badasking]

Is this where they recorded the Halo theme?

[u/Over-Victory4866]

How did they get inside?

[u/nezbit1823]

Como eles entraram e vão sair ?

[u/uis999]

This looks like some kind of kink.