The Allora & Calzadilla Pipe Organ ATM is Practical Artwork
Corinne Guirgis — June 7, 2011 — Art & Design
References: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes & thisiscolossal
The pipe organ is one of the most beautiful and artistic instruments in the world and the sounds it creates are some of the most distinctive and celebrated, which must be why the fully funtional Pipe Organ ATM by artists Allora & Calzadilla is so incredibly popular among tourists and citizens alike! The elgantly crafted musical money making machine plays a unique melody with every dispensation of cash.
Oddity Central expands: "With constant lines forming around the pavilion in which the ATM is housed its currently experiencing withdrawals at four times the rate of an average ATM in Italy." To boot, there is only one ATM machine in Giardini and the gardens make it home to Venice's national pavilions.
Image Sources: Ada Fruit | News Toky
Oddity Central expands: "With constant lines forming around the pavilion in which the ATM is housed its currently experiencing withdrawals at four times the rate of an average ATM in Italy." To boot, there is only one ATM machine in Giardini and the gardens make it home to Venice's national pavilions.
Image Sources: Ada Fruit | News Toky
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