Strolled over to take a peek at this today (evading work is such a joy).
This February, experience Chicago’s new winter celebration in downtown Millennium Park. The free, month-long outdoor festival features the U.S. debut of Canadian artist Gordon Halloran’s work, Paintings Below Zero.
Situated behind Millennium Park’s famous Cloud Gate sculpture, Halloran will create his largest and most spectacular installation to date, a monumental and colorful ice wall measuring 95 feet long and nearly 12 feet tall.
One side, visible from Michigan Avenue, echoes the city’s renowned skyline. The other side—full of color, complexity and variety—is meant to be interactive and seen in close proximity. Inspired by a glacial wall in its final stages of movement toward the ocean, the installation will evolve over time with natural and planned changes, encouraging visitors to return frequently to observe the activity.
Halloran’s ice paintings use portable refrigeration technology: modular aluminum plates that efficiently conduct the cold. These tabletop-size plates assembled into different configurations help in crating, displaying and maintaining the ice works, regardless of temperatures.
[From Museum of Modern Ice]
Here are a few snapshots (sorry Aunt P).
Cold Cuts
Part of the Museum of Modern Ice by Gordon Halloran
www.museumofmodernice.com/aboutExhibition/
Yellow Blues
Yellow Icicle
But What Is it?
Tourists gape at the Museum of Modern Ice. I missed the dude's massive, face-distorting yawn by a fraction of a second.
Don't Eat the Yellow-Green Snow!
Sometimes I am a Tourist
There are never enough Bean photos, are there? Ahem.
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