Tag: installation
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Street Art Sculptor “Unzips” a Building in Milan for Mind-Bending Art Installation
Street artist and sculptor Alex Chinneck has brought his mind-bending illusions to Italy with an incredible installation in Milan. Running alongside Milan Design Week, Chinneck has literally unzipped the front of a building in the city in what he calls the most ambitious work he’s ever made. In addition to the incredible exterior, the building’s…
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A Rainbow of Thread Fills a Gallery at the Toledo Museum of Art
Mexican installation artist Gabriel Dawe’s most recent installation, Plexus no. 35, is a rainbow installation that appears as refracted light beams and is made out of thousands of multicolor threads. It’s housed in the Toledo Museum of Art’s Great Gallery, and will be on display through January 22, 2017. You can see more of his work on his website and Instagram. And don’t forget,…
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100,000 Suspended Balloons Inside Covent Garden Market In London
Heartbeat is a cloud like structure assembled by artist Charles Petillon who has attached 100,000 white balloons onto a frame, and installing lights to illuminate them. The enormous display piece is located at the Covent Garden market place in London. Heartbeat is the first time French artist Charles Petillon did any of his work outside…
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Amazing Psychedelic Sculptures That Will Blow You Away!
The remarkable sculptures before you are the work of Jen Stark, a visionary artist inspired by the intricate aspects of nature, replication, and infinity. She produces her astonishing creations through a variety of outlets such as paint, animation, metal, wood, plexi, and most notably, paper.Jen received her BFA in fibers and a minor in animation at…
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Twisted Ropes Attached to Gallery Walls Sprout like Trees
Brazil-based artist duo Janaina Mello and Daniel Landini of Mello + Landini create tree-like installations with untwisted ropes fastened to the walls of galleries. Titled Ciclotramas, the artworks have gone through 17 different iterations since 2010, each involving some form of ropes that seem to branch through the air and splay onto surfaces like fractals or a network…
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Figurative Wire Mesh Sculptures by Edoardo Tresoldi
Edoardo Tresoldi is an artist and sculptor from Rome, Italy. The artist’s medium of choice is wire mesh which he molds into figurative sculptures of humans and animals. You can find many of Tresoldi’s artworks on his Behance page with additional views and close-ups of his fascinating work. And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of…
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Artist Collects 50,000 Keys Across the Globe for An Exhibition About Memories
Within the 2015 Venice Art Biennale’s Japan Pavilion, artist Chiharu Shiota has amazed visitors with an extraordinarily immersive presentation. Using two boats, vibrant red yarn, a net of interlaced metal, and more than 50,000 unique used keys, Shiota created “The Key in the Hand,” an exhibition meant to inspire viewers to think about the importance of memories and the unknown.…
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Floating Garden in Japan Where Flowers Move Skyward as you Approach
Japanese art collective teamLab have created an incredible floating flower garden installation featuring over 2,300 living flowers in bloom. TeamLab adds: When a viewer gets close to this flower-filled space, the flowers close to the viewer rise upwards all at once, creating a hemispherical space with the viewer at its center. In other words, although the whole…
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3D Figurative Collages Encased in Layers of Glass by Dustin Yellin
The Brooklyn-based artist Dustin Yellin was commissioned by the New York City Ballet to install a new series of his figurative collages. The artist refers to the sculptures as Psychogeographies because “they feel like maps of the psyche.” Each large-scale sculpture is individually embellished with bizarre found objects—cut-up books, magazines and trash found on the street—which are then sealed within layers…
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Terracotta Warrior Sculptures Glow in Sydney for Chinese New Year
To celebrate Chinese New Year (which, this year, lies on February 19), visit Dawes Point in Sydney, Australia from February 13 to February 22 to see 90 colorful lantern sculptures that were inspired by the famous Terracotta warriors. Created by Chinese artist Xia Nan, these larger than life lanterns were made from fabric and wire.…