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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Giant 50ft slides coming to the UK will make you feel like a kid again



It's aaaarght! A computer image of the 50ft slides to go up in central London in June
These 50ft-high slides in the middle of London will let you relive your childhood - while pretending to like art.
The outdoor sculptures are by Belgian artist Carsten Höller, whose last slides in the capital nine years ago were a runaway hit.
This time 'art-lovers' will snake their way round 130ft of metal and glass from the roof of the city's Hayward Gallery before hurtling out four storeys below.
All you need is a £15 ticket to the artist's exhibition, which also includes 'flying machines' to suspend visitors above traffic on the city's Waterloo Bridge.
The 53-year-old artist claims his piece, Isometric Slides, will create 'an emotional state that is a unique condition somewhere between delight and madness'.
They represent the most dramatic choice visitors have to make during the exhibition, which is called Decision.



Fond memories: It's nine years since Carsten Höller made these slides at London's Tate Modern

Not only will people have to choose how to leave the gallery - they'll also face "doubles, twins, forking paths and mirrored reflections".
One work called The Pinocchio Effect will give visitors "the uncanny sensation that their nose is growing".
And there will be two robotic beds which 'roam' the galleries by themselves.
Curator Ralph Rugoff said: "Carsten Höller is truly one of the world’s most thought-provoking and profoundly playful artists, with a sharp and mischievous intelligence bent on turning our ‘normal’ view of things upside-down."
The exhibition, from June 10 to September 6, comes nine years after thousands of visitors took to the artist's 'Test Site' slides in the capital's Tate Modern gallery.
"Slides are dangerous," Mr Höller admitted at the time after a journalist bruised her arm. "You have to learn how to use them."
A Southbank Centre spokesman could not say immediately how much the slides cost.

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