All Blog Posts Tagged 'installation' (410)

For more than forty years, artist Dale Chihuly has wowed us with his expert glass sculpting skills. We have seen all kinds of amazing swirls, spheres, and floral glass sculptures and, according to his website, he has created more than a dozen extremely successful series of…

Artist Peter Root enjoys what others might define as a tedious process of constructing cities and landscapes on very tiny scales. Much of Root's traditional work explores all kinds of "fictional landscapes created through an exploration of techniques," from everyday office supplies to carved potatoes. In this project entitled Ephemicropolis, Root took simple staples and transformed them…

German artist Katharina Hinsberg's installation titled Mitten, roughly translated as Middle, features a network of red beads hanging in a grid-like formation. Each crimson sphere is aligned with the next, creating an intriguing Matrix similar to Muti Randolph's Deep…

This house created by Minnesota-based artist Chris North has literally been frozen in time. Deep North is a project consisting of an installation that the artist photographed and video recorded to convey the idea of an abandoned home, lost to the frozen temperatures of a cold climate. Viewers can experience the harsh conditions of Larson's creation without having to step foot into the…

Pay phones may not be as prevalent as they used to be, but who's to say that they aren't staples of our environments? In the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil, phone booths serve as more than just obsolete stands due to the creative public art project titled Call Parade. The ongoing group exhibition, which is sponsored by phone carrier Vivo, has transformed 100 telephone…

South African artist Andries Botha has constructed some of the most life-like elephant sculptures over the course of his artistic career. The artist is known for incorporating traditional elements and using raw materials like driftwood to produce his mammoth creatures. His public installation piece titled You Can Buy My Heart and My Soul, originally…

Multifaceted artist Muti Randolph redefines the space his installations inhabit, blurring the lines between art and architecture. He designs interactive works that allow spectators to enter and experience the visually stimulating installations firsthand. His piece titled Deep Screen invites gallery visitors to step into the display and take in the three-dimensional…

Train is the public art installation of a life-size steam locomotive by Scottish sculptor David Mach, whose wire hanger and…

It's hard not to fall into a hypnotic trance while staring at art student Yasutoki Kariya's installation titled Asobi. The kinetic structure, whose name translates as "play" in Japanese, features a transference of light and motion from one end of a series of light bulbs to the other, á la Newton's…

Co-founders of Cao | Perrot Studio, a bicontinental creative studio based in Los Angeles and Paris, Andy Cao and Xavier Perrot have recently unveiled their latest installation titled Red Bowl. The skilled landscape artists have constructed this structure consisting of 5,000 black rods, arranging the tall poles in a circle around a wooden walkway over a pond at the…

Why simply look at art when you can be part of it? Last month, travelers Michael Powell and Jürgen Horn shared their fun photographic adventures at The Trick Eye Museum in Busan, South Korea where they basically had a good time taking entertaining pictures…

This recently completed installation, by Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo, gives the phrase "getting lost in a good book" a whole new meaning. A few weeks ago, we told you about a huge maze being made with 250,000 books. From today until August 26, aMAZEme is now being…

Who knew a trash bin could serve as more than just a container for garbage? Apparently Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus had a vision for this kind of thing when they created Plastic Garbage Guarding the Museum as part of the Oh, Plastiksack! exhibition at the Gewerbemuseum in the Swiss town of Winthertur.

The exhibition is intended to raise…

Mexican artist Gabriel Dawe makes all kinds of wondrous things with basic textiles. His ongoing series, Plexus, is a collection of unique, complex structures that form intricate patterns of color with sewing thread. The artist says he builds the site-specific installations to "explore the connection between fashion and architecture, and how they relate to the human need for shelter in all its…

Flickr photographer Patrícia Almeida recently shot these great photos of a wonderfully whimsical umbrella art installation in Portugal. Like something out of a fairy tale, the umbrellas look almost like they're magically floating in mid-air. As she writes, "In July, in Águeda (a Portuguese town), some…

While most artists who create large-scale murals work with paints, brushes, and varied illustrating tools, Brooklyn-based Korean artist Ran Hwang uses buttons, beads, and pins, carefully aligning each component to produce some incredibly ambitious results. The artist recreates images of temples and cherry blossoms, which both echo Asian and Buddhist motifs, by hammering…

Architect friends Adam Scales, Pierre Berthelomeau, and Paul Van Den Berg worked together to create this surprising and playful installation, entitled Reframe, for the 2012 Festival of Lively Architecture. Through visual exploration and movement, visitors will be pleasantly surprised by the variations and changes that appear. From one perspective, the…

There are so many kinds, colors, and textures of paper that can be used in artistic creation. Taiwan-based artist Mia Liu finds inspiration from this medium and takes it one step further by transforming generally flat paper forms into three dimensional sculptures. The artist says she is "particularly mesmerized by the unique textures created by drawing on different papers; [She] loves to…

What do you do with a bunch of extra hangers hanging in your closet? Well Portuguese designers Diogo Agular and Teresa Otta of LIKEarchitects had a brilliant idea. They took 2,000 colorful IKEA children's hangers and designed this Chromatic Screen for the 2012 Oporto Show, an event known as the most prestigious event for interior design and architecture on the Iberian…

Have you ever wondered what a library for birds would actually look like? Would it be incredibly well-organized or unbelievably messy? To Mark Dion it must look something like this. He created "Library for the Birds of Massachusetts" a thought-provoking installation for MASS MoCA back in 2005. He surrounded one maple tree with a smattering of books on subjects like…