Penetrabile by Jesus Rafael Soto - LACMA

Penetrabile by Jesus Rafael Soto - LACMA

Anne and I recently returned from Los Angeles.  While Anne was taking part in covering the TCM Classic Film Festival, check out her coverage at Lulu's Vintage, I spent my time wandering around Los Angeles checking out museums and other destinations.  I brought along my Diana camera and just got these developed photos back from Blue Moon Camera in St. Johns - Portland.  Over the coming days and weeks I'll be posting some photos from the trip.

One of our primary destinations while in Los Angeles was to visit LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art).  I can easily say that this was one of the better museums I have ever been to.  We were lucky enough to visit during a couple of excellent exhibits: Metropolis II by Chris Burden, In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, California Design 1930 - 1965 "Living in a Modern Way", Fracture: Daido Moriyama, not to mention taking in the strong permanent collection on display.

Just outside the Ahmanson Building on the LACMA campus, is this sculpture entitled Penetrabile by Jesus Rafael Soto.  In doing some research about this piece I stumbled across LACMA's blog which has a nice explanation about the sculpture. 

To provide a couple of brief stats on the Penetrabile sculpture:  20,000 linear feet of specially manufactured plastic tubing is employed in the creation of this piece of 2,000 - 2,500 suspended tubes.

The interactive quality of this piece is great - you can't help but being drawn in to experience the space and sensation of all of these suspended plastic tubes.  While we were visiting there were several people exploring the piece including some children who were having a lot of fun running through the piece. 

Penetrabile by Jesus Rafael Soto - LACMA

Anne at Penetrabile by Jesus Rafael Soto - LACMA