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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