All Blog Posts Tagged 'installation' (378)

What screams "high class" more than the grandeur caves of a winery featuring a chandelier with 1,500 Swarovski crystals? I certainly can't think of anything off the top of my head. That's part of why this exquisitely designed and installed hanging sculpture, boasting said sparkling crystals, takes our breath away.

Sculptor Donald Lipski constructed the ceiling fixture titled Chilean…

As an architectural pop art tribute to Monet, Canada-based architects and designers at Claude Cormier + Associés Inc. used 90,000 plastic balls to adorn Le Havre City Hall's landscape as part of its Contemporary Art Biennale. The installation, titled Pergola, boasts an eye-catching visual swirl of blues, reds, and purples to add an alternative liveliness to the…

On the pavements of Wroclaw, Poland, at the intersection of Piłsudskiego and Świdnicka streets, Polish artist Jerzy Kalina installed a total of 14 life-like statues—seven people descending into the ground on one end of the junction and seven people emerging from the ground on the adjacent corner.

The public art installation called Przejście, translated as Passage…

Chicago-based design firm Studio Gang Architects, led by architect Jeanne Gang, constructed this towering puzzle piece structure called Marble Curtain. As its title suggests, the architectural piece is a curtain-like draping pillar made of stone. Each of the 620 slabs of stone used in the construction of the piece was shaped using water-jet cutters. Standing at 18 feet tall,…

For those of you who need a little love today, check out this awesome Tunnel of Love, created by Studio Vollaerszwart. This glowing light experience was created for a GLOW festival located in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Using thousands of paper hearts, the studio lit the scene with black lights to create a soft, glowing environment filled with warm feelings of consuming…

Calgary-based artist Caitlind r. c. Brown, in collaboration with multi-talented machinist, musician, and artist Wayne Garrett, built this surreal cloud for the contemporary art festival, Nuit Blanche Calgary. Formed out of more than 5,000 light bulbs, as well as metal pull-strings and steel, the sculpture hung overhead throughout the night as a fun and interactive public display. Visitors could…

Artist Noah Scalin created this amazing anamorphic illusion of a skull out of old, obsolete technology, as inspired by Hans Holbein the Younger's The Ambassadors. The piece, cleverly and aptly titled Dead Media, boasts the reconfiguration of 497 VHS tapes, both from the artist's…

Spanish artist Jaume Piensa's sculptural installation titled Nomade, translated as Nomad, is a literal man of steel. The figurative sculpture displays a gigantic replica of a man sitting with his knees to his chest. The painted stainless steel figure is left incomplete, without a discernible face, feet, or hands, as a sign of welcoming spectators in, literally. The sculpture is open…

Located in front of the CMP Block building in Taiwan, this art installation presents two sinking cars that are being consumed by a sea of bright green grass. The scene is reminiscent of the aftermaths of a flood, where cars are devoured by the surrounding forces of nature. As remnants of the vehicles peek their heads out of the surface of the grass, they become a memory of a past…

As part of Nights Light 2012, a festival in Singapore that features light installations around Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and School of the Arts (SOTA), WOKmedia created an installation that's fun and quirky. Night Watch consists of 30 giant pairs of animal eyes peering out from the corridors of the museum, illuminating the night sky. Based on the eyeball patterns of…

Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed is no stranger to fiber arts. Most of his works revolve around the construction and deconstruction of intricately patterned rugs and carpets. This three-dimensional installation straightforwardly titled Thread Installation deals with this similar concept of visualizing the breakdown of a complex design. Using the rectangular body of a typically Middle…

Not everything is always as it seems in this series titled Light Installations. Artist Mary Temple redefines a room without taking up any space. She paints expertly administered silhouettes that give the impression of a shadow being cast from a window. Upon entering one of her painting installations, Temple forces the audience to question the site-specific art and "celebrate…

Beautiful blue swarms of butterflies have been recently covering the streets of Indianapolis. From a distance, you may think that a new breed of monochromatic butterflies have just flown in, but upon closer inspection, you'll soon realize that this phenomenon is actually a project by Indiana-based artist Tasha Lewis.

Named the Guerilla Sculpture, Lewis creates a blur of blue wings…

Artist Tomás Saraceno has dreams of living among the clouds. Over the past decade, the Argentina-born installation artist has concentrated his efforts on creating large-scale suspended spheres that can often be entered, walked through, or sat upon. The massive cloud-like structures are a breathtaking display of life and energy, as formed by synthetic materials.

For the…

Australia-based artists Ken and Julia Yonetani draw attention to Fukushima's Daiichi nuclear power plant accident from 2011 with their sculptural installation titled What the Birds Knew. The 6-meter long sculpture is actually made of uranium glass beads illuminated by UV lights, giving it that bright neon green glow. The collaborative duo use the radioactive…

Back in May, when Louis Vuitton announced that their latest artist collaboration would be with polka-dot crazy Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (the artist who was behind that awesome stickers installation), we knew that they were going…

Artist Joy Umali has a portfolio of all kinds of surreal, swirling, and slightly rickety-looking furniture. Describing herself as a "Thingtician," she takes found objects and transforms them into custom-made, but sometimes unbelievable, household furnishings. In this project entitled Ladders, the artist installed several wobbly ladders in the sands of Rodeo Beach, Marin Headlands in San…

Scottish sculptor David Mach thrives on the concept of taking everyday materials and collectively transforming them into extraordinary objects. From wire hangers to…

Artist Aakash Nihalani has an incredible talent for creating optical illusions with simple strips of colored masking tape. The New York-based artist really knows what he's doing when it comes to perspective! Using colors and shapes, he creates all kinds of geometric structures that have a three dimensional appearance, and then photographs people interacting with those imaginary…

Who could ever tire of seeing an art installation like this? Long Wave is an enormous 380 foot long, 60 foot high sculpture that rose just above onlookers' heads and then soared to the ceiling. It was created by Toronto-based installation artist David Rokeby who's been exhibiting his works since 1982. The helix was made from 63 large red spheres that hung from the arches of the…