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‘I.Rain,’ Light Installation by Thierry Gaugain

Shan Tara — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:01:55 +0000

Exhibited at the Maison & Objet 2012 show, ‘I.Rain’ by Thierry Gaugain is poetic installation created to bring us an atmosphere of Chill light rain, like in a magical world.

‘Floor,’ Installation by Do Ho Suh

Shan Tara — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:10:16 +0000

Korean Do Ho Suh has created this large sculptural installation made of thousands of multicolored miniature plastic figures with their heads and arms turned skyward carrying a glass plate. The plastic figures are holding the weight of the individual visitor who steps onto the floor.They represent the diverse and anonymous masses of people who support and resist the symbolic floor.

Bourrasque, Sculpture by Paul Cocksedge

Hans — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:52:58 +0000

London designer Paul Cocksedge completed a sculpture resembling pieces of paper caught in the breeze. Installed in the courtyard of a hotel in Lyon, the 25-meter long ‘Bourrasque’ sculpture was completed for the city’s annual Festival of Lights.

The 200 suspended sheets were made from an electrically conductive material that lights up when a current passes through it.Each sheet was the same size as a sheet of A3 paper and was moulded into shape by hand.

Photographs by Mark Cocksedge

Dice Sculptures by Tony Cragg

Shan Tara — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:24:38 +0000

British Artist Tony Cragg unveiled his latest dices sculptures at FIAC 2011 in Paris. All these fluides scupltures are made of thousands of dice glued one by one.

Awesome 33-Foot-Tall Lego Christmas Tree in London’s St. Pancras Station

Shan Tara — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:52:59 +0000

A giant Christmas tree made of LEGO has been revealed in London’s St Pancras International Station. Constructed by Titmarsh and Diment, the Xmas Tree is composed of 600,000 Lego bricks, 172 Lego branches, and 1,200 Lego decorations. It took two months to build and erect the tree, and organizers have planned special events like a treasure hunt competition to go along with the new spectacle.

‘Crouching Tiger Turtle Magic Mountain’ by Heike Mutter Ulrich Genth

Hans — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:43:42 +0000

It has taken eight weeks of intensive assembly work but the newest feature of the German landscape has been unveiled. The city of Duisberg is now home to Crouching Tiger and Turtle, which could easily be described as a roller coaster without a roller coaster!

It stands about eleven meters in height and is part of the city’s Capital of Culture project. Crouching Tiger and Turtle, Magic Mountain (to give it its full name) is a work by sculptors Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter.

The giant sculpture, situated in the Heinrich Hildebrand-heights is made from steel and zinc which establishes a link between itself and the park in which it is situated which once produced zinc before it was turned in to a recreational space.

Via Kuriositas

Forever Bicycles by Ai Weiwei

Ian — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:02:25 +0000

The installation will be part of “Ai Weiwei, Absent,” a collection of 21 works presented by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The exhibition contains 21 works from the dissident Chinese artist including photographs, sculptures, and installations.The exhibition is scheduled to run from October 29, 2011 to January 29, 2012 at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and features 21sets of Ai’s works.

8-foot Geometric Light Sculpture Parmenides by Dev Harlan

Shan Tara — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:27:57 +0000

Dev Harlan – “Parmenides I”, 2011 from Dev Harlan on Vimeo.

Dev Harlan is a multidisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice combines the physical and the virtual with the use of sculpture, light and projection. As a self educated Artist, Designer and CG Director, Devan’s uniquely identifiable aesthetic language and reductionist approach place his work at the forefront of a new mode of media arts practice.
Via [Neatorama]

Watch Sculptures by Dominic Wilcox

Shan Tara — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:43:12 +0000

Artist Dominic Wilcox has created a series of miniature sculptures using a range of vintage watches, which have been customized with tiny figures to create unique animated scenes.

“The miniature figure on the second hand moves around constantly and the figure on the minute hand appears stationary. I spent time thinking about the relationship between the two people, how one passes another repeatedly and I tried to think about when that situation happens in real life or in an imagined scenario. I altered head and arm angles of found model figures and made objects such as the LCD tv with wire and plug. The glass domes are hand blown to fit each watch exactly.”

Plexus Series by Gabriel Dawe

Shan Tara — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:00:11 +0000

These massive ribbons of color are made from little more than thread, and from a short distance, the inventive installations seem to be floating. Gabriel Dawe is a young conceptual artist of Mexican origin who currently lives in Dallas – USA – where he is achieving his MFA in Arts and Technology at the University of Texas.

His South American roots give a great influence to his works, colours are bright and vivid, as in the Plexus project, a series of installations that we can define optical, made with threads, nails and wood in a triumph of joy for the eyes.The sewing thread, the main material composing Plexus, is to create garments to protect the body from the weather. Similarly, the architecture responds to that function.Gabriel takes the characteristic of the garment and creates an architecture, a structure that does not repair from the material needs but it makes something not_real that identifies and defines the intangible needs: essential to the survival of humanity.

A4 Paper Cuts by Peter Callesen

Shan Tara — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:26:13 +0000

Peter Callesen Copenhagen Danish artist works on installations cut from A4 sheets of 80g and tranform them into 3D form, leaving behind the negative space from which the form is created.

I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with, because it is probably the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today, and in that sense it is something very loaded. My paper works have been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality. I find this materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form almost a magic process – or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts.

Most recent I have started to make white paper cuts/sculptures inspired by fairytales and romanticism exploring the relationship between two and three dimensionality, between image and reality. I find the materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form as an almost magic process – or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is as well an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts.

Peter Callesen
Via [Recraft]

Picnic Table by Michael Beitz

Hans — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:49:06 +0000

New York artist Michael Beitz sent us photos of his latest creation, the‘ Picnic Table’. Michael was commissioned by the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts to realise a this permanent installation on its front loading dock. This 10-foot-long outdoor picnic table seemingly overflows its space on a gallery terrace and drips down a railing to a level below.

The table was built from laminated poplar and marine epoxy.

‘Sleeper Cells’ by Suzanne Husky

Ian — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:03:21 +0000

Suzanne Husky is a Franco-American visual artist who’s graduated from the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts and has been living in the San Francisco Bay. She built small pods that seem to be cozy and quaint inside with a natural environment. Constructed of wood shakes and shingles with a hedgehog-like appearance, they are advertisements for a Thoreau-inspired lifestyle and a return to simplicity.

“what I want to highlight is the philosophical choice of living with almost nothing, and being happy with almost nothing. It’s the aesthetic of simplicity and poverty that I like to highlight as well. So that’s probably more the social aspect of globalization, or one of the choices of how to respond to globalization, more generally than just environmental crisis.”

Monika Grzymala’s Installations

Shan Tara — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:23:08 +0000

Monika Grzymala’s installations function somewhere between an architectural intervention and immense line drawings. Monika Grzymala draws in three dimensions, creating lines with unconventional materials such as adhesive tape, lead wire and branches.

Barely anchored to the walls, these energetic forms leap into the gallery space, where they interweave to create what she calls “an architectural intervention”.

The frenetic nature of her installations is hardly what one would expect from the laid-back artist who is a DJ in her spare time. “I think these are the moments when everyone realizes I exist”, she says. “I’m here, I’m alive, I’m part of that world.” Last year, her drawings at Marfa, Texas (see Issue were made from brightly colored branches; in 2000 she drew on a skating rink (see left), working her lines beneath 10 layers of ice; and her current series of installations, each inspired by London’s skyline, are part of the Hayward Gallery’s touring exhibition The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing.

Jaume Plensa’ Sculptures

Hans — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:14:57 +0000

Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa has established an international reputation for creating public sculptures that are both monumental in scale and emotionally engaging in subject. He works is made from an amalgam of polyester resin, white pigment and marble dust, and its glittering neck rises straight from the grass, creating an otherworldly beacon amid the furor of the Flatiron district.

Via [Fubiz]

Chimecco, Musical Bridge by Mark Nixon

Shan Tara — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:41:03 +0000

Chimecco is a bridge turned into a musical instrument by hanging metal pipes from the underside.
This kinetic sculpture built by Mark Nixon from London studio CZWG is part of the third annual exhibition called ‘Sculpture by the Sea‘ in Aarhus, Denmark.

Edouard Martinet ‘s Sculptures

Shan Tara — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:42:44 +0000

French sculptor Edouard Martinet transforms everyday objects found in flea-markets and car boot sales into works of art.

The sculptor crafts astoundingly detailed and life-like sculptures of fish, birds and insects from pieces of discarded junk.

The former graphic designer-turned-sculptor has been doing this for the last twenty years, finding his materials at flea markets and car scrap yards, which range from rusted kitchenwares, typewriter keys, car lights, brakes, chains and other pieces of scrap.
From 1988 to 1992 he lived and worked in Paris as a graphic designer, and in 1990 started sculpting and staging exhibitions. From 1992 to 1995 he lived in Charente before moving to his current location in Rennes where he teaches art at L’Institut des Arts Appliques.

‘Fragile Future III,’ Chandelier by Ralph Nauta & Lonneke Gordijn

Shan Tara — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:21:10 +0000

Fragile Future III by Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn of Studio Drift was presented at Design Miami/Basel, 2011.

It tells the story about the amalgamation of nature and technology. In the distant future these two extremes have made a pact to survive. Fragile Future III combines an electrical system with real dandelions in a light sculpture that is predestined to overgrow a surface.
This system is different from the earlier versions because we can build up 3D constructions with the newly developed modules.

Therefore we have total freedom in creating different light installations. This project is a collaboration with the London based Carpenters Workshop gallery. The installations are limited and can be bought true them. We also produce custom installations on commission. The installations are delivered on Plexiglas so they can be easily installed and reinstalled. 5 Spare Dandelion light bulbs are included.

One module is a visible circuit with 3 dandelights. This module system is ease to attach to the next one (in unlimited different ways), meanwhile the power will always continue correctly true the installation. So it is possible to create a composition from just a few, up to 500 modules, according to the space and atmosphere.

Fragile Future III is far less fragile then Fragile Future I and II. Therefore easy to install and maintain. Both Fragile Future I, II and III are limited and built by our company.