Artist Mary Ellen Croteau used different sizes, color and shapes of bottle caps to create this very impressive self-portrait.
A forest path lit at night to create this stunning mix of projections, installations and effects in this amazing storybook experience in Quebec's Parc de la Gorge de Coaticook: Foresta Lumina, created by Montreal-based Moment Factory through October 11th.
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We've seen the stunning anamorphic work of French painter, photographer and sculptor Bernard Pras before (A Room of Stuff Arranged to Create this Anamorphic Portrait). Here he has recreated a portrait of French postman Ferdinand Cheval from a carefully arranged pile of furniture.
Ferdinand Cheval, the man in the portrait, is most famous for spending 33 years of his life building Le Palais Idéal
Ferdinand Cheval
Le Palais Idéal
Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira created this installation entitled Transarquitetônica at Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo.
Argentinian-based artist Elisa Insua creates this awesome pop culture images by assembling toys and coins and other bits of computers and electronics.
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By Rusty Squid:
Book Hive is an interactive sculpture created to celebrate the 400 year anniversary of Bristol Libraries, and it will ultimately feature 400 animatronic books. Large wooden structures awash with honey light will engulf visitors in an immersive and atmospheric environment, where life-like animated books, inhabiting the cells will physically engage visitors, reacting to their movements in the space. Book Hive is a three month project, where the public gets the opportunity to influence its development. Rusty Squid will observe the public’s behaviour, and with the assistance of the Book Hive Keepers (exhibition stewards), collect feedback, in order to transform the shape of the hive and the way that the books respond. This evolution will take place over two months, between December and February, with the full 400 books installed by 7th February 2014.
Printmaking, cut paper, and cheap dollar store items come together in Crystal Wagner's organic looking installations.
The Rising Moon dome was constructed for Hong Kong’s Lantern Wonderland 2013 festival by Daydreamers Design out just of recycled plastic bottles and LED lights.
The 65-foot-diameter pavilion makes use of 4,800 five-gallon water bottles fitted with LED lights.
Rising Moon is a temporary pavilion designed to serve as an anchor attraction during the Hong Kong Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Wonderland 2013, held in Victoria Park from 14 September 2013 to 22 September 2013. It reinterpreted traditional paper lanterns with recycled plastic bottles and at the same time creating a Synthetic Moon, thus promoting the message of environmental protection.
French artist Theo Mercier's piece, entitled Le Solitaire. Not really spaghetti, but instead silicone coated cords and two large, blue eyes
"He one who is showed, who is watched, he is unique and alone because he is a monster. It tells a lot about the idea of exposure."
Motoi Yamamoto is an internationally acclaimed contemporary Japanese artist from Hiroshima, Japan, who creates elaborate, site-specific installations made entirely out of salt. Often in the form of large-scale labyrinths or aerial projections of typhoons, Yamamoto takes one of the earth’s oldest, most sought-after mineral elements to cover the entire gallery floors during a two-week residency at the Monterey Museum of Art—Pacific Street location. Traditionally used as a symbol for purification and mourning in Japanese culture, the artist’s use of salt emanates from a powerful personal experience in working through the death of his sister. His artwork is rooted in themes of life, death, and rebirth, and his process with salt has helped him cleanse his grief. Return to the Sea, Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto is organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston School of the Arts. Video produced by John Greenwald
From the video page:
Motoi Yamamoto is an internationally acclaimed contemporary Japanese artist from Hiroshima, Japan, who creates elaborate, site-specific installations made entirely out of salt. Often in the form of large-scale labyrinths or aerial projections of typhoons, Yamamoto takes one of the earth’s oldest, most sought-after mineral elements to cover the entire gallery floors.
Via Zimoun’s artist statement:
Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun’s minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.
329 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, toluene tank Zimoun 2013 _ Permanent installation. DC-motors, cotton balls, filler wires, power supply, lighting system, bench foundation, toluene tank (1951). Dimensions: ⦰ 9.4m x 12.8m height / ⦰ 30.8 x 42 ft. Located in Dottikon, Switzerland. Architecture and consulting by Hannes Zweifel. Assisted from Studio Zimoun by Florian Bürki, Ulf Kallscheidt, Janis Weidner, Marlene Hirtreiter and Annie Rüfenacht. Making-of video by Florian Bürki. Lighting system designed and developped by Davide Groppi. Landscape architecture by Hannes Zweifel and Samuel Interbitzi. Project coordination on-site in Dottikon by Bruno Bachmann. Constructive engeneering by Hans Jörg Baumann and Arthur Hauser. Book: concept, project management and graphics design by Raffinerie AG. Photographies by Zimoun and Janis Weidner / Studio Zimoun. Video by Zimoun. All right reserved © Studio Zimoun. _ «Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun's minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.» bitforms nyc «The sound sculptures and installations of Zimoun are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic». It‘s an artistic research of simple and elegant systems to generate and study complex behaviors in sound and motion. Zimoun creates sound pieces from basic components, often using multiples of the same prepared mechanical elements to examine the creation and degeneration of patterns.» Tim Beck «Zimoun creates complex kinetic sound sculptures by arranging industrially produced parts according to seemingly simple rules. Using motors, wires, ventilators, etc.., he creates closed systems that develop their own behavior and rules similarly to artificial creatures. Once running, they are left to themselves and go through an indeterminable process of (de)generation. These quasi autonomous creatures exist in an absolutely synthetic sphere of lifeless matter. However, within the precise, determinist systems creative categorioes suddenly reappear, such as deviation, refusal and transcience out of which complex patterns of behavior evolve.» Node10 _ Compilation video: http://www.vimeo.com/7235817 Next exhibitions: http://www.zimoun.net/events.html Newsletter: http://www.zimoun.net/newsletter.html Video archive on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/zimoun/videos/sort:plays Website: http://www.zimoun.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zimoun/134817185765 bitforms gallery nyc: http://www.bitforms.com Galerie Denise René Paris: http://www.deniserene.com _ http://www.zimoun.net
Political cartoonist turned artist, Damián Ortega has these beautiful suspended sculptures.
Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa, working in Berlin, suspended eight HD video displays of water, accompanied by sounds.
Photo manipulator Lachlan Burrows, better known as Lockie, then made the animated gif above, in the spirit of the original.
Octfalls RYOICHI KUROKAWA Audiovisual installation 2011 8 HD displays | 8ch multi sound Duration: 08'00"
Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen creates these site specific installations of art and photography. Dreamy, lovely.
1.4 million feet of rope found on hundreds of miles up and down the east coast, was taken by New York-based artist Orly Genger and covered in more than 3,000 gallons of paint, knotted it and then piled it into these bright undulations in Madison Square Park for the summer.
Atlanta-based installation artist Gyun Hur creates arrangements of materials.
She explains:
“Narratives of labor, loss, and place are vital elements in [these] constructions of a specific visual and psychological space. Through the menial process of making, selective collections of found objects transform into a poignant residuum of the past and the present. A sentimental installment of materials and insertion of a physical body facilitate an occupied territory as a platform for opened dialogues, both internal and external.”
Artist James Nizam precisely cut the exterior of the house, employed small mounted mirrors on ball joints, and studied the summer sun's movement to create these light sculpture and capture these normal exposure images.
Augusto Esquivel, Miami-based artist creates 3-dimensional forms by simply attaching buttons to a fishing line, demonstration how “a common object used to create a piece of art becomes transformed into something complicated and intriguing.”
Jonathan Brilliant (what a name) is a British installation artist who weaves coffee sticks by the hundred into flowing sculptures showing only their own inner logic.
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French artist Stéphane Malka put together this installation called BoomBox featured at the Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona. The simple and low-tech have amazing impact.
