How long has it been since everyone went to an amusement park?
The Spring Festival holiday is just around the corner, do you choose to stay at home and lie down or choose to go out and visit the popular attractions?
Disney and Universal Studios have allowed many adults to relive happy childhoods, but everyone seems to have different definitions of "what is an amusement park".
The park that sheep wants to talk about below may be difficult for some people to understand this kind of fanaticism: an amusement park full of art facilities can be even more difficult to find than Disney and Universal Studios.
The point is, the amusement park has been closed for 35 years and will restart its tour this fall!
More than any other park, the sheep find Luna Luna Art Park to be a theme park without walls.
In this theme park named after artworks, literature and art do not belong to a certain circle, but a carnival that everyone can participate in.
Luna Luna Park without roller coasters,
How to become the yearning of the public?
The gate of the paradise is deliberately built to be magical, and the collision of geometric shapes and strong colors is like a cross-dimensional enchantment, stepping through it, you don't have to worry about the fly camp dogs in daily life.
And this design came from the artist Sonia Delaunay.
A brief background on the project.
In June 1987, the amusement park called Luna Luna was completed and briefly opened in Hamburg, Germany.
Here, there is no roller coaster in an ordinary amusement park, no high-tech VR, AR equipment, more like a central park where children go to play every day.
This ambitious art carnival project comes from the brainchild of Austrian artist André Heller.
Luna Luna was André Heller's lifelong dream.
He once told ARTnews magazine that he wanted to use art and imagination to fight the crisis of the world.
At the beginning of the project, André Heller received a $500,000 grant from the German magazine Neue Revue.
Despite the financial constraints, he rejected McDonald's offer, not wanting to build the project into another Disneyland in the world.
As a multimedia artist, Heller Studio built his signatures, creating flying sculptures, circuses, and fire glasses.
According to media reports at the time, the art amusement park set up a booth in honor of Andy Warhol.
Visitors can pose next to life-size photographs of Einstein, Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Sure enough, according to relevant statistics, about 250,000 people participated in this art feast on the opening day.
Here you can see abstract art, Dadaism, Fluxus, Neo-expressionism, neorealism, pop art, surrealism, Viennese activism and many other art installations.
At Luna Luna, this immersive experience is infinitely close to reality, allowing people to temporarily forget the world of Truman who knows themselves.
A dazzling array of artworks
Constructed as Luna Luna Paradise
The entire project featured 32 artists and was called "the most dazzling art exhibition on earth" by Life magazine.
André Heller offered each artist $10,000 in a fee for the collaboration.
Without exception, every artist agreed to participate in this delightful challenge.
Looking back, whether it was Disney or Universal Studios theme parks, it influenced our lives for a long time.
Sometimes sheep wonder, from childhood, sentimental teenagers to adulthood, what kind of role do these paradises play?
Is it a playmate? Is it a pastime? Or is it subtly influencing my values?
This is one of the ideas that Luna Luna Art Park wants to convey: to find inner memories in a new way.
Works in the art amusement park include a walk-in "shadow room" designed by George Baselitz.
The music "Magic Tree" designed by David Hockney.
Roy Lichtenstein's "glass maze" with bold colors.
Keith Haring made a set of carousels, designed the seats in the shape of cartoon characters, and filled the entire facility with iconic motifs from his work.
Kenny Schaaff's 6 groups of comic sculptures and more than 100 independent works were also placed around the brightly colored carousel.
Basquiat's Ferris wheel and Dalí's mirror amusement park have become the park's most iconic attractions.
Keane Haring created a carousel drawn with his iconic cartoon characters and symbols.
Other attractions include Salvador Dalí's "Pavilion of Reflection" and August Warra's hand-painted circus carriage.
Each attraction plays its own unique music.
Philippe Glass composed the music for the Glass Labyrinth, the Magic Tree Space burned a CD of the Berliner Philharmoniker, and Basquiat chose Tutu for his region.
Ruins or conversions seem to be the fate of the amusement parks built in the eighties and nineties.
Luna Luna traveled around Europe after her appearance in Hamburg, Germany, and the Viennese government, halfway through the road, took a fancy to the big cash cow and planned to buy a permanent display of the park, but stopped it for complicated political reasons.
André Heller's dream was defeated by bureaucracy and business, and he ended up in debt. In desperation, he sold it to the Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation for about $6 million.
Eventually the amusement park was locked.
Luna Luna's artwork, including paintings of giants of the art world on attractions and rides, is stored in a cemetery in a shipping container grave, weaving cobwebs and catching dust for over 30 years.
Go both ways for love
Why write about this paradise?
Because the event, known as the world's first mobile art carnival, is scheduled to make a comeback in North America in 2023, 35 years later!
An almost mythical "art amusement park" is undergoing a seemingly incredible resurrection.
That's thanks to rapper Drake and his production company, DreamCrew, investing $100 million to awaken this artistic treasure.
According to a news report in The New York Times, rapper Drake and his production company DreamCrew own part of the investment, totaling nearly $100 million.
While the date is yet to be determined, fans and fanatics living in North America can slowly expect that they will get the elegance of Luna Luna's artistic presence.
The 35-year-old artworks will also be redesigned and displayed from the "Great Warehouse".
No kidding, this old warehouse can be directly opened as an exhibit.
A dimly lit area, piled with all kinds of artistic creations, is like some old warehouse suddenly discovered, alluding to the glory and silence of the past.
In paradise, the intangible and invisible concept of "love" seems to be transformed into a concrete expression.
Love is a scream after excitement, but also a memory of tiredness and laughter; Love is the joy of meeting each other every day, and it is also a once-in-a-lifetime unforgettable moment.
After 35 years, Luna Luna opened the park amid the pandemic. On unusual days, people seem to call for happiness even more.
It's not easy to guard innocence, at least we still have paradise.