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BBMet_09.28.2010_S5137
by Mike + Doug Starn

ARTIST STATEMENT

“Although the Starn brothers are best known for their photographs, in fact their abiding interest is in organic systems and structures, as seen in their photographs of trees, leaves and snow flakes, or here, in Big Bambú."
—Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman of the Department of 19th-Century, Modern and Contemporary Art for the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Invited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific installation for the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Mike + Doug Starn presented Big Bambú: You Can’t, You Don’t, and You Won’t Stop in April 2010. Big Bambú went on to become the official collateral exhibition of the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011.

During the six-month exhibition at the Met, the bamboo structure measured 100 feet long, 50 feet wide and 50 feet high, and it took the form of a cresting wave, bridging realms of sculpture, architecture and performance. Over 600,000 visitors witnessed the continuing creation and evolving incarnations of Big Bambú as it was constructed throughout the spring, summer and fall by the artists and their team of rock climbers. Set against Central Park and its urban backdrop, Big Bambú suggested the complexity and energy of an ever-changing living organism.

Big Bambú encompassed a vast network of 7,000 interconnected 30- and 40-foot-long fresh-cut bamboo poles, lashed together with 70 miles of nylon rope. An internal footpath artery system grew along with the structure, facilitating its progress. The artists and museum made the artery systems open to the public, allowing visitors to fully experience the living sculpture and thrill of being aloft within this artwork (100 feet above Central Park).

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BBMet_09.28.2010_S5137

by Mike + Doug Starn

archival pigment print
available framed

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      Add frame 171
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      Add frame 265
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    • 16"x16" 300
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Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

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  • 8"x8" print offered in 14"x14" frame (3/4” front profile x 1 1/4” side profile)
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All of our prints have a minimum border of .25 inches to allow for framing. We do not alter the aspect ratio, crop or resize the artists' originals—quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the image, not the printed image itself. For exact image sizes and more helpful info, view our framing guides: