In the world of art you can compose, paint, write, sculpt… and also inflate. This is demonstrated by the beautiful creations that can be seen in ‘Pop Air Balloon Museum’an interactive inflatable art exhibition that arrives this Saturday in Madrid and has already been successful in Milan, Paris and Rome, and will soon do so in other major cities around the world such as New York or Berlin.
He Puerta del Ángel Stage (in the Casa de Campo Fairgrounds) is the place chosen to host this unique exhibition recommended for all audiences, which can be seen from March 18 to July 23 in three daily shifts (10-12, 12:15- 4:00 p.m. and 4:15 p.m.-8:00 p.m., until 9:00 p.m. on weekends) with prices of 20 euros for adults and 16 for children, and in which a tour of different facilities is offered, each more original and colorful.
‘Aria, The Breath Immersive Experience’ from the Pepper’s Ghost studio consists of an immersive experience made up of a multitude of balloons, and whose sound design is designed to translate into sound the sensations created around visitors with the same intensity and depth as breathing through kilometers of distance. It then moves on to the space occupied by the work ‘Airship Orchestra’ by the Eness creative team, an environmental installation that presents a mystical tribe of characters from another world, teleported to Madrid to invite attendees to mingle with them and immerse themselves in volumetric sound. and the rhythmic pulsation of light.
For its part, ‘Hypercosmo’, which comes from the group of artists and designers Hyperstudio, is an installation that offers a harmonious and imaginative vision of the contradictory links between nature and new technologies with the use of projections, sounds and movements of different elements. Continuing with the walk, we come to the proposal of the Motorefisico duo (composed of Lorenzo Pagliara and Gianmaria Zonfrillo), who present the installation ‘Never Ending Story’, a space where conventional spatial references are lost, and where the public is immersed in a multiple universe.
Another of the ‘Balloon Museum’ facilities
As its name indicates, ‘A Quiet Storm’, (‘A silent storm’) is an installation full of contradictions with white spheres that fall to the ground, like small soap bubbles, caressing the public so that they experience the combination of organic elements and artificial. Later, ‘Cloud Swing’ offers a playful and interactive experience that uses swings suspended from luminous clouds to create color and light as people interact with the work.
Designed by Alan and Meko Parkinson, ‘Dodecalis’ presents the most recent and exciting evolution of the dodecahedral dome with a dazzling layout of luminous lines that animate three spaces called ‘Dodecadomes’; and with ‘Into the Rainbow’, the viewer will experience a first-person journey through Virtual Reality viewers that allow different scenarios to be explored.
Other installations that will perplex visitors to this globe museum are ‘Knot’, made up of huge artifacts in bright colors and incredible interactive geometric sculptures; ‘Silenus’, a gigantic inflatable silhouette made of a delicate nylon spinnaker, a material often used in the construction of competition sails; ‘Polyheadra’, where visitors can assemble tubes of different sizes and lengths in multiple ways; and ‘Tholos’, whose title refers to the circular archaeological constructions formed by rings of stone blocks that form a pseudo-dome.
