The "Pyramid of Time" is being built in Germany, to be completed in 3183: photo
In the south of Germany, in the city of Wemding, an artist named Manfred Laber decided to build a "Pyramid of Time".
The pyramid is supposed to be made of 120 concrete blocks. Each of the blocks is added to the building once a decade. Currently, the pyramid consists of four blocks: it began construction 30 years ago and is planned to be completed in 3183, The New York Times reports.
The artist Manfred Laber, a resident of Wending who died in 2018, proposed the Pyramid of Time project in 1993 to mark the 1200th anniversary of his city. After his death, the city authorities established the Wendinge Pyramid of Time Foundation to fund artworks after his lifetime.
At the end of the 20th century, Laber was not the only German artist to explore the passage of time through generations. From 1982 to 1987, the artist Josef Beuys planted thousands of oak trees in the city of Kassel, central Germany, for a work called 7000 Oaks. And in 1996, sculptor Bogomir Ecker created the Troppsteinmachina, an artificial stalactite that dripped for 500 years at the Kunsthalle Hamburg in Hamburg.
Since then, several other long-term art projects have been launched in Europe and beyond.