Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy
“Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy” is an art exhibit amusement park that originally took place in Hamburg, Germany in the summer of 1987, but was soon lost to the public. For the first time since its closure in Hamburg, the exhibit reopened in Los Angeles in December, 2023 and will soon travel to an unannounced new city.
In early 2022, Drake’s entertainment company, DreamCrew, acquired the pieces from the original presentation and brought them to Los Angeles, reassembling the pieces to put on display.
“Luna Luna” was the brainchild of Austrian artist André Heller. Heller gathered the most renowned artists of the time from different art movements, and put the project together. Salvador Dali, Jean-Michel Bawquiat, Keith Haring, Rebecca Horn, were among the featured artists.
Artists from different genres in the art world came together to create the art amusement park, which was cutting edge and contemporary for its time. It included a wedding chapel where people could marry who they wanted, challenging the norms of traditional marriage. Patrons could ride a ferris wheel by Jean-Michel Basquuiat, while “Tutu” by Miles Davis played.
Due to a change in ownership, the exhibit was caught in litigation, leading the artwork to be “hidden within a graveyard of shipping container tombs” following the summer of 1987, according to the exhibit’s website.
Not all of the original rides made it to the LA show, but there were still plenty to see.
One of the more interesting parts of the exhibit was a timeline with pictures featuring its history, along with a short documentary on some of the artists who created projects for the amusement park.
The LA exhibit closed on May 12, but will open again to the public once a new city is announced.