Tatton Park in Cheshire, England organized the third biennial on its 2,000 acres estate this fall, an event that featured several emerging artists who took part and impressed the event’s visitors with their intellectual aptitude as it pertains to memory and myth. The theme of this year’s event was ‘flight’ and bearing that in mind some artists made and crashed fake Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) in the park, while others painted jetliners.
However, French artist Olivier Grossetete decided to take a completely different paththan his fellow artists. Grossetete took three balloons that were filled with helium and tied them with a bridge that he built himself in order to raise it from the ground instead traditional pillars. As a result, this unique bridge managed to capture the eye of every single visitor at the park. Grossetete named it Pont de Singe, which means “Monkey Bridge”.
The attention-grabbing thing about this bridge was that it goes nowhere, as Grossetete placed it right in the middle of the pond in Tatton Park’s Japanese Garden. The artists did so because he does not want any daredevil to walk on this bridge because it is not safe to perform such an activity.
The balloons attached to the bridge were not much different from the ones that are usually used for weather measurements, each of them capable of lifting a little more than 120 pounds of weight, however the structure and underlying support not completely secure. Therefore, insurance issues did not allow to open this bridge for walk.
Grossetete added, “Those are all pragmatic reasons for the inaccessibility. But I also think that this inaccessibility helps [Pont de Singe] avoid becoming a gadget or gag at the amusement park, instead becoming poetry. I think our imaginations takes us further than any balloon.”
Grossetete is well-known for producing these types of artefacts, as he has backdrop of set designing. Both his mother and father are physical scientists and they aided Grossetete in building this structure by providing him necessary calculations.
Source: FastCoDesign
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