Eight Stacked Beams

From the series One hundred masterpieces
Eight Stacked Beams Carel Visser (1928–2015), iron, 1964

Sculptor Carel Visser plays here with equilibrium and gravity.
How did he counterbalance these eight stacked beams?

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