He began by constructing a coiling pair of 60-foot slides, along with a neurobiology laboratory stocked with pea seedlings, inside the museum at Florence’s 15th-century Palazzo Strozzi. Opening to the public this week, the exhibition brings scientifically inspired contemporary art to the Renaissance city, where the union of art and science first flourished. The museum allows visitors to descend the slides, but with their intimidating height and pitch, a touch of courage is required. Photo“I like the idea of the exhibition as a public place,” Höller tells me, standing just beyond the slides. PhotoOn the top floor of Palazzo Strozzi, I ready myself at the mouth of a slide.

Source: New York Times April 20, 2018 17:15 UTC