Daily Mail
BRISTOL, England — When firefighters got a call asking them to pump 20,000 litres of water at an art gallery, they may have expected to find a serious case of flooding when they arrived.
But the crews were actually needed to help create a work of art which, unusually, required the water to be pumped into the first floor of the building. Now the only way to get about the room at Bristol’s Arnolfini arts centre is to walk on pieces of a 150-year-old tree, arranged in the water like stepping stones.
The unusual installation is the central work in an exhibition called Gost Log, by Berlin-born artist Matti Braun. It is based on a movie by renowned Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray entitled The Alien, which was never released but is thought to have inspired Steven Spielberg’s hit E.T.
Full story: Tree-mendous! Inside the art installation that lets you walk on water... by leaping from log to log
Photos Arnolfini Art Gallery
The art exhibit is based on a movie called “The Alien” and was created with the help from firefighters.
