{"id":159938,"date":"2025-11-26T03:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159938\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:07:08","slug":"a-sculpture-made-of-tens-of-thousands-of-aluminum-facets-writhes-in-a-knoxville-park-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159938\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sculpture Made of Tens of Thousands of Aluminum Facets Writhes in a Knoxville Park \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vibrant new pavilion rises to meet the square\u2019s picturesque trees in Cradle of Country Music Park in Knoxville, Tennessee, connecting the city\u2019s Old Town and its theater district. Made from tens of thousands of individual pieces of painted aluminum, the vivid \u201cPier 865\u201d provides both a resting place and a vantage point in a reinvigorated public square.<\/p>\n<p>The reptilian sculpture is the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/theverymany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Marc Fornes \/ THEVERYMANY<\/a>, continuing the designer\u2019s interest in high-tech, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/tags\/marc-fornes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">large-scale installations<\/a> that involve meticulously assembled elements. Conceived digitally, the structure has a bold, futuristic quality that looks exactly like a 3D model made real\u2014one can imagine its pixel-like pieces puzzling together in a computer program.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fornes-8.jpg\" alt=\"a contemporary, teal-colored pavilion designed by Marc Fornes\/THEVERYMANY in a public square in Knoxville, Tennessee\" class=\"wp-image-466004\"  \/>Photo by Steve Kroodsma<\/p>\n<p>The pavilion is painted in greenish gradients in a nod to its surrounding trees. \u201cIts organic shape brings to mind different life forms from different angles: from ground level, the sculpture suggests alien flora growing from the concrete\u2014but viewed from the sky, a tensile, reptilian form reveals itself,\u201d a statement says.<\/p>\n<p>See more work by Fornes on his <a href=\"https:\/\/theverymany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theverymany\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fornes-2.jpg\" alt=\"a contemporary, teal-colored pavilion designed by Marc Fornes\/THEVERYMANY in a public square in Knoxville, Tennessee\" class=\"wp-image-465998\"  \/>Photo by Keith Isaacs<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fornes-5.jpg\" alt=\"an aerial view of a contemporary, teal-colored pavilion designed by Marc Fornes\/THEVERYMANY in a public square in Knoxville, Tennessee\" class=\"wp-image-466001\"  \/>Photo by Steve Kroodsma<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fornes-9.jpg\" alt=\"a contemporary, teal-colored pavilion designed by Marc Fornes\/THEVERYMANY in a public square in Knoxville, Tennessee\" class=\"wp-image-466005\"  \/>Photo by Steve Kroodsma<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fornes-1.jpg\" alt=\"a contemporary, teal-colored pavilion designed by Marc Fornes\/THEVERYMANY in a public square in Knoxville, Tennessee\" class=\"wp-image-465997\"  \/>Photo by Steve Kroodsma<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fornes-3.jpg\" alt=\"a detail of a contemporary, teal-colored pavilion designed by Marc Fornes\/THEVERYMANY in a public square in Knoxville, Tennessee\" class=\"wp-image-465999\"  \/>Photo by Keith Isaacs<\/p>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"118516\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Hide advertising<\/p>\n<p>Save your favorite articles<\/p>\n<p>Get 15% off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Receive members-only newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vibrant new pavilion rises to meet the square\u2019s picturesque trees in Cradle of Country Music Park in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1122,307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,89658,5496,4199,3023],"class_list":{"0":"post-159938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-marc-fornes","18":"tag-parks","19":"tag-public-art","20":"tag-sculpture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}