Bookshelf Porn

Book Building of the Day: As part of a local children’s book fair, Slovakian artist Matej Kren was invited by the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna to install a massive fortress composed of thousands upon thousands of books.

The piece — “Scanner” — is meant to evoke “a sensation of sublime terror, an alteration referring to a puzzling infinity itself created to destabilize conventional spatial habits.”

Uh… What he said.

More photos can be found here.

(via thedailywhat + inhabitat)

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