Chris Burden

Chris Burden(April 11, 1946-May 10, 2015) an American artist working on performance, sculpture and installation art. He created “Urban Light” a sculptural work consisting of 202 antique lights. This display is outside of LACMA. The antique lights are solar powered. Metropolis II, 2011. Chris Burden, United States, 1946-2015. DC motors, electronic controls and sensors, custom die-cast cars, HO-scale train sets, neodymium magnets, steel, aluminum, copper sheets, brass, plastics, assorted wood products, tiles, acrylic and oil-based paints, rubber adhesives. (LACMA) Metropolis II seems to replicate traffic anywhere in the world. In one corner of Metropolis II, there's a train that seems to act like the metro. One building is made of wood brick and possibly pink painted copper sheets. The front of this building is mostly pink copper sheet reflective surface. One side is only pink copper sheets that seem to be divided by steel. Then on the other side is wood bricks. In the back of the wood, bricks is a tall square shape building with pink copper windows. The building is rectangular with a square tall building in the corner. This building seems to an office place. There's a building that's similar to this one, instead of pink copper sheets it's painted blue. The shape of this blue …show more content…
It took Chris four years to build Metropolis II. Metropolis II has 1,100 cars and eighteen tracks that the cars travel on. Metropolis II is about ten feet tall. The cars are colorful. This artwork requires two people: one on the inside to make sure everything goes smoothly and one walking around the artwork watching for any cars stopping or the car jumping out of the artwork. Metropolis II can only run for about an hour, on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays for about four hours a day with one hour break in between. It gives people anxiety and makes people feel dizzy and more aware what will happen in the near future with cars and