Bernie Lubell’s first Uk exhibition opens T FACT
OFF-BEAT, elaborate large-scale wooden installations are set to wow visitors to Liverpool’s FACT this summer.
Visitors to award-winning Bernie Lubell’s first UK exhibition will find it impossible to miss his giant, if somewhat rickety, art creations.
Tonight, the intricate and hands-on work of the San Francisco-based artist will be revealed at a private viewing before it opens to the public tomorrow.
It includes a major new commission which literally takes over the atrium.
Cleverly suspended in the air, the A Theory of Entanglement wooden machine requires visitors to bring it to life.
By pedalling bicycles connected to the machine, visitors will be able to crochet a large knot that will hang from the ceiling until it gradually reaches the floor.
Lubell’s work “doesn’t come with instructions” and his various pine contraptions spread across two floors encourage a hands-on approach with cogs and wheels for visitors to use which, in his own words, “are prone to breaking”.
