The Magic Carpet
Pae White
Floating between worlds - art in transit
Pae White was inspired by the idea of a flying carpet that blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy. The artwork is intended to give travellers a feeling of lightness and movement and symbolize the dynamics of travel.
The installation consists of 486 aluminum frames, each 4 millimeters thick and 10 centimeters high. These boxes are connected to each other by joints and together form an area of 27 by 37 meters. The filling material consists of extremely thin aluminum strips with a thickness of only 0.3 millimeters. In total, the filling material would be around 13 kilometers long if it were unfolded. The entire work of art weighs 4.7 tons and is painted in traffic red, a color that is also used for traffic lights and road signs.
Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)
Metal becomes magic - a staging of 12 km of aluminum
The installation is suspended from 97 steel cables at a height of around 8 meters in the BER check-in hall. Of these, 67 cables are statically load-bearing, while the remaining 25 cables were installed to meet fire protection requirements. During the day, the frame elements, including the fillings, were manufactured in a workshop specially set up in the check-in hall. During the night, the frames were installed by industrial climbers. The entire production and assembly period took around 3 months.
The cleaning of the almost 1000 square meter work of art takes place annually and extends over several nights, with special work platforms and gentle cleaning methods being used to avoid damaging the sensitive aluminium strips. The planning and implementation of the project took several years. Following the "Art in Construction" competition in 2010, the installation was completed in spring 2012 and installed in Terminal 1 of BER.
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