Level 2 Riverside Terrace
Jeppe Hein: Appearing Rooms
Tuesday 1 July 2008 - Sunday 28 September 2008
The work of Danish artist Jeppe Hein (born 1974) often combines sculpture with architecture and technology to playfully
solicit the viewer's direct participation. Hein's aquatic sculpture Appearing Rooms was originally commissioned for
the garden of the Villa Manin, Italy. Hein was inspired by the Baroque villa to design an ornamental fountain that visitors
would be invited to enter, to interact with changing spaces created by rising and falling walls of water.
Redefining
traditional ideas about fountains, this public artwork explores the relationship between spatial perception and memory, presence
and absence, inside and outside. As visitors walk through the 'rooms', they must carefully consider the patterns of
rising and falling water if they are to leave the space without getting wet.
The installation may be closed for short intervals for essential maintenance work and may not be in operation in windy or wet weather conditions.
- FREE Tuesday 1 July 2008 - Sunday 28 September 2008
