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Page 1: Impossible Art Installations...Pyramid at Giza 4,600 years old •2.5 million stone blocks @ 5,000 lbs. each • 20 years / 140,000,000 labor hours The original impossible project

Presented by Bryan Cooke Cooke’s  Crating  &  Fine  Arts  Transportation

Impossible Art Installations

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What are “Impossible Installations”? • Installation Projects with a high degree of difficulty.

• At first there does not seem to be a solution.

• Requiring substantial planning, organizing, and often engineering.

• Involving potential risks & possibility of failure.

• Require substantial skill sets, knowledge, imagination and creativity.

• Often needing the capacity to cover large up front costs for labor, materials and equipment.

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Pyramid at Giza

4,600 years old • 2.5 million stone blocks @ 5,000 lbs. each • 20 years / 140,000,000 labor hours

The original impossible project

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What lessons learned from 46 centuries ago?

These organizing principles are still in use today:

• Planning & Engineering

• Financing

• Problem Solving

• Project Organization

• Project Completion

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How are modern installation projects different?

• Computers & Engineers

• Equipment (cranes, gantries, trucks)

• Insurance Companies

• Internet: bad publicity potential. (Yelp, etc.)

• Attorneys

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Moving  Gainsborough’s   Blue Boy

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Moving  Gainsborough’s   Blue Boy

Problems:

• Moving a famous masterpiece across the Huntington Campus on sidewalks

Solutions:

• Construct A-frame cart with pneumatic wheels

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Installing  LACMA’s   “La  Gerbe”  by  Matisse

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Problems: • Matisse ceramic is extremely fragile • Art weighs 2,000 lbs. • Art measures 12 x 18 feet • To be installed on a non-bearing wall with low

ceiling heights Solutions:

• Design and fabricate a steel support structure • Prepare scaffolding to support rigging apparatus • Hire a contractor to construct a wall to surround

the Matisse

Installing  LACMA’s   “La  Gerbe”  by  Matisse

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“La  Gerbe”  as  installed  in  the  outdoor  courtyard  of  the  Brody  residence. Property of Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Fabricating the metal frame on site

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Installing the I-Beams support

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Scaffolding for the I-Beam support

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Installing the I-Beams

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Chain Hoists

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Lifting the Matisse (reverse side)

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A welder adjusting the steel support

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Adjusting the steel support

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Welding the Matisse to the steel frame

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“La  Gerbe”  installed  at  LACMA

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Alexander Calder: Max Palevsky Estate, Palm Springs

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Alexander Calder Problems:

• Weighs 6,000 lbs • Over-width truck load • Boulders and cactus cause difficult access • Beyond the reach of regular cranes • 115 degree heat

Solutions: • Contract for custom crane services • Move boulders and plants • Build gravel roadway through desert terrain • Obtain over-width permits for transit • Fabricate support for flatbed trailer

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Richard Serra De-Installation

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Serra De-Installation Problems:

• 40 foot steel sculpture weighing 22,000 lbs. • Located in a canyon 30 feet below street level • Inaccessible behind trees and power lines • One half of sculpture buried • Fragile surface patina

Solutions: • Design and fabricate steel support with skids • Excavate the sculpture • Raise with jacks and wooden shoring • Construct pathway up hillside • Pull sculpture up hillside with cables and pulleys

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Three men pivoting 22,000 lbs by hand! (9980 kilos)

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