Roller Coaster
Thursday, September 1st, 2011Roller Coaster
Want to walk up a giant, looping roller coaster? (weblogsinc)
Filed under: Arts and Culture, Hiking, Stories, Europe, Germany, Budget
Travel, News, Women's Travel, Theme Parks
On November 13, 2011, the "Tiger & Turtle - Magic Mountain" sculpture in
Duisburg, Germany, opened to the public. This isn't your average piece of
public art, however, as it is designed like a giant roller coaster with stairs
and slopes that people can actually walk on.
Traversing over the sculpture, visitors will be put 148 feet above the
surrounding countryside, gaining access to great views of the famous Rhine.
While trekkers will reach great heights, they unfortunately will not get to go
upside down, as the intimidating-looking loop actually contains stairs that
keep you standing straight up.
The piece, which took one year to build, was created by German artists Heike
Mutter and Ulrich Genth, who describe the sculpture like this:
"The curved flight of stairs inscribes like a signature on the landscape and
recruits the nimbus of the classical roller coaster. Having a closer look, the
public is disappointed in a disarming way. The visitor climbs on foot via
differently steep steps the roller-coaster-sculpture. So the sculpture subtly
and ironically plays with the dialectic of promise and disappointment,
mobility and ...
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