DE PERE - If you’re wondering what up’s with the big yellow bubble that has popped up on the Mulva Cultural Center terrace along Broadway this summer, you are not the only one.
It's pretty hard to miss.
No, De Pere is not getting its own mini version of Las Vegas’ iconic Sphere , but there is something cool going on under there.
A sculpture titled “The curious planet" by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is being installed and is expected be on view to visitors by the end of August.
The piece is a globe of four layers of progressively more complex geometrical forms that expand exponentially from the core. Bronze crossbars connect the layers. Circular panes of blue glass float inside the structure, and irregular hexagonal fading mirrors form some of the faces of the outermost layer.
“The curious planet” will be illuminated from within at night. The combination of materials, angles and shapes will make for an interplay of light, color and shadows, illustrating the artist's message that “everything is connected and constantly evolving.”
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“It is tempting to see the world as a solid, relatively stable, unchanging sphere. It is an image that is so familiar as to be mundane. The truth is, however, that the world is constantly in motion and these movements are sometimes too fast to capture and sometimes too slow to comprehend,” Eliasson said in a statement provided by the Mulva.
“Water is constantly circulating through the oceans and rivers and into the atmosphere in weather patterns that unfold quickly and seemingly unpredictably. Not to mention the activities of humans and the migration of animals in herds and flocks. On the other extreme, the changes in climate, the ice ages and desertification; the movement of tectonic plates; the creation and destruction of mountain ranges all unfold over millennia.”
Planning for the project has been in the works for more than two years. Jim and Miriam Mulva, the philanthropists behind the $100 million Mulva Cultural Center that opened in December, have been involved in its development. and visited Eliasson’s studio in Berlin, Germany.
Three members of his team are on site in De Pere working on the installation.
Kendra Meinert is an entertainment and feature writer at the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Contact her at 920-431-8347 or kmeinert@greenbay.gannett.com . Follow her on X @KendraMeinert .
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