Credit: Luna LunaCanadian Rapper, Drake, just recently invested $100 million dollars into restoring an abandoned theme park.
Luna Luna, is described as the world’s first traveling art amusement park. It is being restored for a global tour starting in North America in 2023.
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This park was the brainchild of Austrian artist Andé Heller.
Luna Luna debuted in 1987 with fairground attractions, games, and rides designed by artists including Salvador Dalí, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Keith Haring, and Roy Lichtenstein.
According to the Luna Luna website– “The first-ever art amusement park, Luna Luna invited over 30 of the era’s most dazzling artists to design rides, games, and other fairground attractions in the summer of 1987. Now thirty-five years after its Hamburg debut, Luna Luna is making an electrifying return, soon embarking on a global tour with artists old and new.”
After opening in Hamburg, Germany in the 1980s, Luna Luna was slated for a global tour. Instead, it was packed up and “hidden within a graveyard of shipping container tombs”.
Drake said in a statement: “When I first heard about Luna Luna I was blown away. It’s such a unique and special way to experience art. This is a big idea and opportunity that centers around what we love most: bringing people together.”
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This surrealist art exhibition is set to hopefully hit the road again in 2023 with an American tour planned followed by an international lark thereafter.
Heller’s fantasy of creating a “travelling terrain of modern art” in the ancient world of the fairground is set to become a reality once more.
Original attractions included a carousel by Keith Haring, Basquiat’s Ferris wheel, and a geometric forest pavilion by David Hockney. These are being “restored to their former glory”, alongside various carnival games, rides and installations.
In addition, the returning park will offer new carnival-style attractions designed by today’s most influential artists. Highlights also include art workshops, film screenings, and special events.
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