All Blog Posts Tagged 'Installation' (22)

Bourrasque, by London-based designer Paul Cocksedge, is meant to represent a large collection of papers blowing away in the wind. Made for France's City of Lyon's annual Festival of Lights, each sheet of "paper" is made from a special conductive material that lights up when a current is passed through it. All are the exact size of a standard piece of printer paper and were…

Beijing sculptor Zhan Wang just finished up a very impressive installation for the UCAA exhibition hall. Titled My Personal Universe, the piece plunges the viewer in the middle of a giant explosion! It's meant to represent the Big Bang theory, that the universe started from a…

Paris-based artist Claire Fontaine is using the interesting medium of matchsticks to add depth to some of her newest pieces. We here at My Modern Met have seen some impressive matchstick art before, but Fontaine's pieces are different in that they make…

The newest installation in Los Angeles' Materials and Applications courtyard is quite the sight. It's a collaborative project between architects Doris Sung and Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter as well as structural engineer Matthew Melnyk. Bloom is a 20-ft tall metal flower that opens and closes with the…

Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay, students at the University of Visual Arts and Design Kassel, Germany, have created an installation that reflects where our modern society has come in this digital age. In the style of Erik Kessel's "Photography in Abundance," the team…

Sharon Levy's installation entitled "The Wood" is a group of sculptures that examine trees in a series of different ways. The most striking piece when one enters the room is the massive nine-foot-tall "cookie" or cross-section of a tree. Meticulously painted, this work only resembles an actual tree ring, it's actually made of stretched and painted canvas with carved and painted foam…

Fiona Banner blew everyone away with this massive new installation at London’s Tate Britain. Harrier and Jaguar bring the highly-charged physicality of two real fighter jets, both previously in active military service, into the unexpected setting of the neoclassical Duveen Galleries.



Banner has long been fascinated by the emblem of the fighter plane.…

Imagine Spiderman going completely insane and losing control of his web shooters and then look at this crazy art installation by Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen. Using nothing but nearly 100 pounds of packaging tape, For Use/Numen transforms abandoned attics, galleries and stock exchange buildings into a spider's cocoon paradise. The coolest part…

This massive bouncy ball installation has to be one of the coolest exhibits ever! Designed by Australian Nike Savvas, "Full of Love and Full of Wonder" represents the very atoms that are the fundamental structural units of all things.

The mesmerizing piece produces an extraordinary optical effect as brightly-colored miniature balls swing within the gallery space. When…