Molecule Man
Perforated thirty-meter aluminum figures rising from a river, arms fused together at a former Cold War divide.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Molecule Man in Berlin starts at the water of the Spree, once part of the line dividing the city and a route some tried to swim toward the West. It follows the three thirty-meter aluminum figures American sculptor Jonathan Borofsky raised there in 1999, commissioned by Allianz, where three districts meet, and his idea that a riddled, perforated body says something true about what people are made of. Watch the light shift on those holes from the riverbank as you listen.
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