How would you like to walk on gold?
You can do it at the Akron Art Museum.
Artist Rachel Sussman has filled cracks in the museum floor with gold.
Yes. Real gold. Stuffed in cracks in the cement floor.
It’s art.
I guess.
Sussman used an ancient Japanese technique to repair cracks in the floor with a resin made out of gold dust. Associate museum curator Theresa Bembnister explained Sussman’s work in a statement. (This is really highbrow, so you’ll get a better effect if you turn on some classical music and imagine this being read by an NPR reporter.)
Rachel Sussman’s installation should take visitors by surprise. She will ‘repair’ a system of cracks in the museum lobby floor using a Japanese technique known as kintsukuroi … Rather than disguise cracks or breakage, kintsukuroi is meant to honor a repair as part of an object’s history.’
This post was published at Schiffgold on DECEMBER 8, 2017.