Contemporary Art Installation

Debora Ballabio

Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to

transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between these

terms overlap.

Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991)

Cornelia Parker, Mass, Colder Darker Matter (1997)

Cornelia Parker30 Pieces of Silver

400 Wooden Chairs Atlanta, E/B Architecture, furniture art Installation

Installation is arguably the most original, vigorous, and fertile form of art today. We have grown increasingly attuned to methods of presentation. (Installation Art by Nicholas de Oliveira, 2005)

Installation as nomenclature for a specific form of art came into use fairly recently; its first use as documented by the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1969

Installation art can be either temporary or permanent. Installation artworks have been constructed in exhibition spaces such as museums and galleries, as well as public and private spaces. The genre

incorporates a broad range of everyday and natural materials, which are often chosen for their "evocative" qualities, as well as new media such as video, sound, performance, immersive virtual reality and the internet. Many installations are site specific in that they are designed to exist only in the space for which they were created, appealing to qualities evident in a three-dimensional immersive medium.

Interactive installation

Gunnar Green

“A wall composed of mechanical apertures, they react to the amount of light and close or open accordingly, the result is a real time half tone effect as a person moves along the wall”

Colorful Canopies of Umbrellas, Sextafeira Produções

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 streets are decorated with colourful umbrellas

Outdoor installation

Andy Goldsworthy , installation view, Inverleith House, 1990.

Working with nature

“As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone” Andy Goldsworthy

understand the internal energy

Categories: recycled sculpture, carved art, sculpture project.The detailed cover illustration gives way to a grey pool and layers of printed word become smeared and disappear..." - Sacha Craddock, The Times

 Barbara Cartland

Type of modern art in which the artist uses, as part of the composition, the specific setting (such as walls, floor, lights, and fittings) along with various materials. Typically the chosen materials more or less fill the space, and the viewer is often able to move around or otherwise interact with the work, so that they become part of that work in that specific moment in time. There are various precedents for this kind of art, but it was not until the 1980s that artists began to specialize in installations.

Edmund De Wall 2013 exhibition, Atemwende,

Installation made by 3000 little pots each made by Edmund for hours, the eye moving from group to group.  He sees them as an expression of poetry and some of the pieces also as music, it’s about the objects, and particularly about the spaces and the way the objects displace space around them

The idea of stories in objects and space in Art using installations.

Edmund de Waal

Edmund de Waal, ‘On White: Porcelain Stories from the Fitzwilliam’

Louise Bourgeois in 1990, Eye to Eye (1970)

Louise Bourgeois , mamelles (mamas)1991

Showing a taboo subject

Louise BourgeoisFillette 1968Latex over plaster

2001, by Louise Bourgeois, The Reticent Child (2003)Working through autobiographical elements and constellations is among the key processes involved in her creation of art. In the installation "The Reticent Child"for the Sigmund Freud-Museum the artist deals with the theme of pregnancy and birth, a theme that has recurred repeatedly in her work throughout her career.The Reticent Child "There is a child who simply refused to be born. His birth was quite late. Was there something that he perceived that prevented him from wanting to leave the womb and go out into the world? How much of who he will be, his feelings and actions, will be predetermined by this refusal to appear? How will this child face the future? Will he be shy, reduced to silence, awkward or even hostile? He is the reticent child. Il était réticent. Mais je l'ai révélé."

Banksy's Disturbing Stuffed Animals Truck Roams New YorkBetter Out Than In exhibit happening on the streets of New York. Here, the artist Banksy is making some sort of comment on the causal cruelty of the food industry. Or perhaps something vague and pretentious about the loss of childhood innocence.”

Communication

Louise Bourgeois, Maman

 is a powerful, gentle protector.

Nendo, Akio Hirata’s Hat Exhibition

Akio Hirata is showcasing more than 70 years of work at the Spiral Garden in Tokyo. The exhibition features more than 4,000 white ‘ghost hats’ floating around and acting as shells of the ‘real’ hats on display. This beautiful and dreamy installation was created by Japan’s most exclusive branding agency, Nendo.

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