Frank Gehry, Wishful thinking.

Frank Gehry, Wishful thinking. Homage to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, 2022.

    

"Filling BP Hall is the immersive installation Wishful Thinking, based on a scene from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Gehry renders the Mad Hatter’s tea party as a group of eleven surreal figures, twice life-size. Fashioned from brilliantly painted metal, Gehry’s abstracted interpretations of Carroll’s original characters surround an internally lit table, the glowing heart of the scene. Three overlapping woven steel “tapestries” of trees evoke the episode’s forest setting and the crumpled surfaces of Wishful Thinking’s figures establish a new visual connection with some of Gehry’s best-known designs."

 

 "A strange little pocket universe has opened up inside Disney Hall as starchitect Frank Gehry’s sculptural homage to the Mad Hatter’s tea party — Wishful Thinking, in a reimagined and more breathable version of the work’s recent Gagosian Gallery installation — occupies the lobby’s smaller BP Hall chamber space like a hallucination. Its already vivid and fanciful accumulation of color, texture and flighty form is amplified and echoed by the shape of the building inside and out — itself one of the more sculptural masterpieces of Gehry’s oeuvre. The result is an elevated and challenging surrealism that does amped-up justice to the giddy flush of Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland that inspired the piece"Written by and photographed by Shana Nys Dambrot

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"The artists and illustrators inspired by Alice were driven to discover or invent new relationships between text and pictures. The identity of the subject was subverted by the allure of the unknown and inexplicable. Rather than repeat, illustrators started to provoke and transgress. They questioned the classic idea that art should imitate or interpret an exterior reality. They also began to seek out subversion, paradox, and experimentation. The present time is filled with otherness and difference. Intertextual readings, metalanguage, multiple assemblies, nonlinear narratives. Abracadabra!"

Adriana Peliano in The hunting of Alice in 7 fits

 

Frank Gehry (born February 28, 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Canadian American architect and designer whose original, sculptural, often audacious work won him worldwide renown. 

 LINK: 31 Spectacular Buildings Designed by Frank Gehry