New York-based artist Leo Villareal is set to install a 30-foot tall “Buckyball” sculpture comprised of 180 glowing LED tubes in Madison Square Park later this year. The sculpture will be formed of one LED rendition of the distinct spherical fullerene structures nested inside another. The installation promises to have an extraordinary dynamic presence in the park as programmable pixels located every 1.2 inches throughout the tubes will have the capacity to glow in any one of 16 million colors.
Beyond an ethereal presence, the sculpture also promises to bring a bold, colorful—and huge—representation of the tiny elements which make up our world while paying homage to the late architect and designer Buckminster Fuller. The carbon structures termed ‘fullerenes” were named for Buckminster Fuller, recognized widely for his creation of large geodesic domes beginning in the 1940s.
Read more: Leo Villareal to Create Giant Glowing LED Buckyball For Madison Square Park | Inhabitat New York City
Leo Villareal to Create Giant Glowing LED Buckyball For Madison Square Park | Inhabitat New York City
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