Buckyball
Buckyball
Artist
Leo Villareal
(born 1967)
Date2012
MediumAluminum tubing clad with LED lights atop aluminum plinth
Dimensions30ft. x 144 in. x 144 in. (914.4 x 365.8 x 365.8 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.3
Accession number
2014.3
On View
On viewLabel TextHere, two nested geometric spheres covered in LED tubes take the shape of a Carbon 60 molecule. Named in honor of Buckminster Fuller, whose Fly’s Eye Dome sculpture is located on the Crystal Bridges campus, Buckyball is capable of producing 16 million distinct colors. This sculpture is illuminated from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day. The light display changes from the white-light daytime sequence to a vibrantly colored evening sequence shortly after dark.
Aquí, dos esferas geométricas insertas la una en la otra y recubiertas de tubos de luz LED adoptan la forma de una molécula de carbono 60. Titulada en honor a Buckminster Fuller, cuya escultura Domo ojo de mosca se encuentra en el campus del Crystal Bridges, Esfera de fulereno puede producir 16 millones de colores distintos. La escultura se ilumina desde las 10 a.m. hasta las 11 p.m. todos los días. El despliegue de luces varía desde la secuencia diurna de luz blanca a una secuencia nocturna de colores vibrantes que ocurre poco después de oscurecer.
