Chris Burden???s Virtual Legacy: Exploring Beyond Limits

Chris Burden (1946–2015) was a conceptual artist from the United States with a varied practice that ranged from performance, sculpture to installation. Though he performed throughout most of his career, his later works turned into immense, engineered sculptural installations. “Urban Light” (2008) is an illuminated forest of more than 200 street lamps in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and “What My Dad Gave Me,” is a 65-foot life-size “skyscraper” made of mechanical toy reproduction parts, which was exhibited at Rockefeller Center in 2008.

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