(16 May 2012) AP Television
New York City, US - 14 May 2012
1. Zoom into Cloudy City sculpture on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
2. Various of up people inside the sculpture looking at Central Park
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tomas Saraceno, artist:
"It blends and reflects the environment. When its blue sky like yesterday was it will get really blue. When it's cloudy you are walking in a kind of cloud scape. Some how you lose your sense of orientation."
4. Wide of sculpture on the rooftop
5. Close people climbing steps inside sculpture
6. Wide people walking through sculpture
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Strauss, Metropolitan Museum of Art -Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art:
"Our sculpture programme up on the roof has increasing been one to work with living artists who come here and they respond to this remarkable setting."
8. Mid exterior sculpture
9. Close reflection of outside of sculpture
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Tomas Saraceno, artist:
"The first time I came up here, I saw this wonderful landscape. It was so impressive. I thought the way to operate was to reflect it. When you see the piece actually what you are seeing is what is around you."
11. Low angle people sitting and looking at the sculpture
12. Close up people walking on the acrylic floor of the sculpture
13. Close artists reflection as he looks at his work of art, pulls out to Saraceno by sculpture
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Sara Theeboom, visitor from Sydney, Australia:
"It's pretty disconcerting, I keep losing my centre of gravity, and feeling like I am going to fall. But, It's very cool. But I wouldn't recommend having a drink before you get in here."
15. Close people climbing steps inside of the sculpture
16. Tilt down from reflection to skyline
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Tomas Saraceno, artist:
"But in this case, what inspired me was the geometry of the soap bubbles or the foam. Of how they connect one sphere to the each other."
22. Wide people walking through the sculpture
23. Pull from skyline to reveal the reflective outside surface of the sculpture
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Terry Hudson, visitor from Manhattan, vox pop
"It's interesting because you are not necessarily sure-footed on where you are going to put your feet because of the lucite floor and the mirror floor so you do it very very slow. And because of the low access, you can't move fast on that because you are just going to bump your head or something. But otherwise, I thought it was really cool."
25. Various of people walking around statute
LEADIN:
An ethereal steel and acrylic sculpture resembling a cloud formation is on view at the rooftop of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Arts.
The sculpture - called "Cloud City" - allows visitors to reach out to the city's sky.
STORYLINE:
It may look as if aliens have just landed on the roof of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, but this big bubble is the work of 38-year-old artist Tomas Saraceno.
"It blends and reflects the environment. When its blue sky like yesterday was it will get really blue. When it's cloudy you are walking in a kind of cloud scape. Some how you lose your sense of orientation," Saraceno says.
Saraceno, an Argentinian artist commissioned by the museum as part of its rooftop sculpture program, calls his creation Cloud City and it took him two years to make it a reality.
This is the 15th year for the rooftop sculpture programme, and Cloud City is the first major commission in the US for Saraceno.
Saraceno was impressed by the views during his first visit to the roof of the MET, and this helped inspire his piece.
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