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Archives for category: INSTALLATION
FALLING FROM THE SKY
These installations with things falling from the sky, especially the one with the car, reminds me of my bizarre day today. I woke up this morning and went out the door where I was met by the absurd vision of a tremendous tree that had fallen and landed on top of my car! What are the chances of this?! Anyways, CHIHARU SHIOTA (b.1971, Osaka, Japan) is behind these amazing labyrinthine installations. Her black wool threads often dominates the entire exhibition space, as if they were spider webs. Chiharu has been based in Berlin since 1997.
Los Carpinteros
Above funny installations and sculptures from the Cuban art collective LOS CARPINTEROS (the Carpenters). Los Carpinteros has created some of the most important art to emerge from Cuba in the past decade. The group merges architecture, design and sculpture in unexpected ways such as roller coaster couches and so forth. If space wasn’t a scarce resource who wouldn’t want to have their very own roller coster couch at home when random sleep over guests drop by:) Los Carpinteros started out as a trio in 1991, but the group was reduced to two in 2003 and now consist of Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés (b.1971) and Daboberto Rodríguez Sáchez (b.1969). They are represented by Sean Kelly gallery in NYC.
Something very clouded
Found this cloud installation by French artist PERRINE LIEVENS (b.1981) over at my friend’s blog spacelle. By sculpturally reworking objects that we know from our surroundings and reinterpreting their function, Perrine questions established patterns of perception and forces us to rethink the use and the function of the objects. Love the poetic dimension in her work. Perrine lives and works in Paris and is represented by VON BARTHA in Basel, Switzerland.
Have a Seat!
Have a seat in this balloon chair and let’s see where it takes you! Polish artist DOROTA BUCKOWSKA (b.1971) is behind this installation. Via todayandtomorrow
House of Egypt
Installation views from the expo ‘House of Egypt’ @ Neues Museum in Bosso, Germany. Via benjaminhuseby
Soft organic & magic world
Above installation views from ERNESTO NETO’s (1964 Brazil) abstract work. Ernesto Neto is considered one of the leaders of the Brazilian contemporary art scene. His inspiration comes partly from brazilian neo-concretism – a movement which rose in the late 1950s & 60s, and rejected modernism’s ideas of geometric abstraction. Instead, they wanted to equate art with living organisms in a kind of organic architecture, and invite the viewer to be an active participant. Neto’s massive multi sensory installations often hang from the ceiling and resemble giant mushrooms and tear-shaped forms. He also creates spatial labyrinths. Neto’s work is an exploration of the body’s landscape from within. To read more, click here. Ernesto is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in NYC.
Escape Artist: Castaway
Initially the idea for JULIE RRAP’s (b.1950) installation ‘ESCAPE ARTIST:CASTAWAY’ (2009) was based on a hybrid between the figures in Gericault’s painting Raft of the Medusa and Marilyn Monroe in her famous dress standing on the street with the wind effect. This hybrid in turn resulted in new images and affects. The result looks a bit like jump cuts in a film sequence. It deals with place in space and movement. According to Julie Rrap it’s ultimately about the desire to imagine; to imagine is to expand the world in order to inhabit the world more vividly in its virtuality. Julie Rrap has been a major figure in Australian contemporay art for more than three decades. Her work includes photography, sculpture, painting, performance, installation and video in an ongoing project concerned with representations of the body – often using her own body as the subject. She is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 gallery in Sydney, Australia.
In the Land of Palm Trees
Currently on exhibit @ gallery Johann König in Berlin is DAVID ZINK YI’s landscape of metal palm trees. The installation creates an atmosphere of cool urbanism between realism faithful to nature and an idealized artificiality. They are reproductions of palm species usually found in California, but made in aluminium and stainless steel.
“… in the Yoruba religion, Changó is the spirit of music, of lightning and thunder. He is the most beautiful and seductive of all spirits and prefers to live in the crowns of the highest palm trees. There he appears in his most threatening form and eavesdrops on the world. With this story, some people in Cuba explain the force of destruction in which lightning hits the high palm trees…” Via contemporaryartdaily.
David Zink Lee (b.1973 Lima, Peru) currently lives and works in Berlin. Zink Yi primarily works with video, photography and sculpture. The exhibition runs until 05.06.2010.
