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Hungary
 Timewheel
2000: The Time Wheel is 8m in diameter and 2.5m thick. It is made of red
granite, rust-free steel and bulletproof glass. It holds 7 tons of sand, can be
turned over, and weighs 60 tons in total.
The Time Wheel is a huge sand-glass; it does not measure Time,
it portrays Time. It is an artistic work, which does not demonstrate the
successive stream of seconds, and which does not stress the attachment of
particular cultures to their own measurement of time, but which depicts Time's
monumentality, Time's streaming continuity, Time's infinite movement. It takes a
year for the 4.4 cubic metres of sand in the Time Wheel to fall from one chamber
into the other.
In developing the conception and plans of the Time Wheel, the
objective of the KRONOS FOUNDATION was to aid the creation of an artistic work
and cultural event that would make it possible for Budapest - as East-Central
Europe's cultural, business and touristic capital - to offer visitors and the
media one of the most attractive sights in the region, indeed the whole
continent.
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