Luna Luna Jean-Michel Basquiat Ferris Wheel Toy
Luna Luna Jean-Michel Basquiat Ferris Wheel Toy
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Size12.5h x 9w x 5.7"d
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MaterialPainted Wood
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Year of Design2023
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Jean-Michel Basquiat created an extraordinary Ferris wheel for the Luna Luna art park in Hamburg, Germany in 1987.
The Ferris wheel features recurrent subjects from Basquiat’s earlier work, including jazz musician Charlie Parker (referenced with the song title “Billie’s Bounce”) and race relations (referenced with the words “Jim Crow”).
Basquiat’s Ferris wheel tells stories of eclectic myths and daydreams. The music for this mechanically turning wheel was provided by legendary jazz musician Miles Davis, whose albums are objects in MoMA’s collection.
Back in the mid-1980s, Austrian multimedia artist André Heller had a vision—to open a truly magical amusement park with rides and attractions created by some of the world’s most exciting artists. In 1987, his ambitious project, Luna Luna, opened in Hamburg, Germany, where families enjoyed the rides, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Ferris wheel and Keith Haring’s carousel, and explored the park’s other unique attractions, like Roy Lichtenstein’s Pavilion. After the park closed, the rides and attractions languished in a warehouse until they were discovered in 2022 and featured as the Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy exhibition.
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