Chris Burden’s Metropolis II En Route to LACMA

Chris Burden’s Metropolis II, is a kinetic frenzy
of 1200 Hot Wheels toy cars, gigantic roller coaster roadways, toy tracks, wood block, tiles, Legos, Lincoln Logs and a whole lot of noise. Metropolis II is expected to be unveiled at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2011. A clip documenting the work-in-progress was filmed in Burden’s studio in Topanga Canyon, California. 





Bigger, better, faster, stronger —Metropolis II is an evolution of a Burden’s earlier work, Metropolis I. A visual and auditory construction of 80 toy cars, two single lane highways and monorails on tracks, Metropolis I is at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. 

LACMA also features another of Burden's monumental compositions, Urban Light, a dramatic sculptural arrangement of salvaged 1920s- and 1930s-era cast iron lampposts from the Los Angeles area.