Thursday, March 25, 2021

SIX TONS OF BALLOON SCULPTURE

As I write this series of posts I wonder more about how much help even receptive viewers need with contemporary sculpture. This piece at Laumeier is called Sugabus, a 2004 work by Robert Chambers. It refers to the arrangement of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms in a molecule of sucrose. Well, and also Cerberus, the terrifying three-headed dog guarding the gates of Hades. Are there three heads? Is there a diet version?             

3 comments:

William Kendall said...

Odd, but I like it.

Sharon said...

I remember going to Laumeier many years ago and enjoying all the sculptures. I like this one and the one you posted yesterday.

Barbara Rogers said...

I immediately thought of some molecular structure, but missed the mythical one.