The most unusual installations that strike with their meaning and content.
Artists, sculptors and modern designers do not get tired to impress connoisseurs of beauty around the world with new achievements and art projects. Some of them are incredibly beautiful and even breathtaking, others are not completely understandable, sometimes disgusting and, at first sight, completely meaningless. But each work is interesting and unique in its own way.
Progressive masters create installations - original symbolic scenery, installed in a certain place and for a short period of time, allowing to appear inside this work and, in some cases, even to modify it. Most of these installations carry a deep or acute social meaning, although there are constructions that simply reflect the artist's perception of the world, his personal characteristics and character traits.
The first public demonstration of auto-destructive art
The sculptor Gustav Metzker had to deal almost immediately with the reconstruction of his art-object in the Tate Gallery (England), because the cleaning lady, for obvious reasons, confused part of the work with ordinary domestic garbage. A transparent plastic bag filled with crumpled paper and newspapers was thrown into the nearest urn on the first day of the exhibition. After the restoration of the sculpture, the owners of the museum prudently fenced the installation with a special protective tape.
Live painting
American artist Valerie Hegarty is engaged, rather, destruction, rather than creation. All her works are high-quality reproductions of famous paintings, spoiled by shooting, explosion, burning and other methods of destroying materials. The installations look as if they have recently survived a natural disaster or a war. The author of the projects explains that her art emphasizes historicism, individuality and character of painting, gives her a unique meaning and her own unique destiny.
In orbit
In Düsseldorf (Germany), the K21 Museum of Contemporary Art attracts visitors with the amazing and fascinating installation of artist Thomas Sarasen "In orbit". The structure is a steel network, stretched under the glass dome of the building (height - 6 m), which are intertwined with each other. They are chaotically arranged 6 balloons of different diameters (up to 8.5 m). Interestingly, the installation is divided into 3 levels, has a total area of 2.5 square meters. km. Visitors to the museum can move inside this unique "web", feeling how it reacts to the movements of all the people present in it.
Key in hand
Japanese Chiharu Ishota has been making amazing designs with threads for many years. Among her works it is worth noting the beautiful and poetic installation "Key in hand". The ocean of bright red threads under the ceiling symbolizes human memory, in which the most precious memories, experiences and secrets are stored. The keys attached to them reliably protect these unshakable values, allowing their owners to touch something personal and intimate. Boats - a means of transportation on the waves of rolling feelings and emotions.
Cloud
One of the art exhibitions in Calgary (Canada) was an interactive electric installation from the master Kaitlind Brown. The device looked like a cloud, and consisted of more than 5000 fluorescent light bulbs with switches in the form of hanging down ropes. Each visitor could go under the "rain" of them and pull for a liked lace. This created an interesting effect of a constant change in the color of the cloud, the appearance in it of darkened and very bright zones.
The rain room
The Barbican Center (London, Great Britain) demonstrates an exciting interactive installation of "Rain Room" from the designers of the famous studio "rAndom International". Room area of about 100 square meters. m is a solid shower, imitating a tropical downpour. But the trick is that hidden sensors are installed in the ceiling, which change the trajectory of droplets when the movement is fixed. Thus, visitors to the installation hear the sound of the falling water, feel the humidity and feel as if in a pouring rain, but remain completely dry.
Scattered set
The Bockenheimer Depot Gallery in Frankfurt (Germany) boasts a simple and at the same time very philosophical installation made up of thousands of white balloons of various diameters. The rooms are literally filled with them from floor to ceiling. The meaning of this masterpiece is the desired way of interaction of a person with the surrounding world. You can move between the balls without touching them and remaining unnoticed, or, touching one or more spheres, cause a change in the entire installation, leave a trace behind it, even if it is insignificant.
Light is time
Together with CITIZEN companies Japanese architect Tsuoshi Tan presented an amazing and unusual installation of watch gears suspended on black threads. The room in which the work of art is located is illuminated by lamps on the ceiling, the thin rays of which are directed exclusively along the garlands. The room is decorated in shades of black, which gives the illusion of golden rain in a vacuum. The project is designed to remind people of the value and importance of every second of the time allotted to them.
Book Hive
When the central library of Bristol (England) was 400 years old, an interesting design resembling honeycomb was installed in the lobby next to its entrance. It includes exactly 400 cells, each of which contains a book with a touch sensor connected to it and a simple mechanism attached to the cover. The installation is interactive, it reacts to the approach of a person, forcing books to open and rustle with pages. And this process corresponds to the movement of visitors.
Dance
A master from Britain, Benjamin Schein, mastered the ability to handle cloth, especially the delicate fathin, from which wedding dresses are usually made. Its installation is more than 2 km of net, hung and pressed so that the people's faces and the silhouettes of the dancers, enveloped in a gentle blue-lilac haze, appear from the material. When you look at Shine's works, it's hard to believe that only tulle was used for the project, because they reflect the dynamics, mood, and even convey inner emotions.
Luminous
Skyscraper in Chicago (USA) was decorated with a magnificent sculptural installation of Wolfgang Bathress. In the original, it is called "Lucent" and looks like a huge brilliant dandelion reflected in the pool. The design required more than 3000 LED bulbs. It is interesting that the art project in question is not just a copy of the flower and a beautiful chandelier. The entire surface of the dandelion as accurately as possible displays the location of absolutely all the stars that can be observed from the Earth.
Kaleidoscopes
The artist Susan Dramen from Holland became famous thanks to optical experiments. It adorns various flat surfaces, walls, floors, ceilings and even the facades of houses, with shiny objects. From multi-colored crystals, mirrors, rhinestones and pearls, complex and hypnotizing symmetrical patterns are created that resemble kaleidoscopes and mandalas. The peculiarity of installations is their exclusivity. The sculptor admits that he never plans ahead of time and therefore does not know what his creation will look like in the end.
Beach
The company Snarkitecture has placed in Washington (USA), in the National Museum of Construction, a kind of resting place. It consists of an "ocean" of plastic balls made from recycled materials, and a beach with artificial sand. "Resort" is even equipped with sunbeds, on which you can safely relax right in the middle of the museum. With the help of the installation, its authors try to convey that recreation should be organized without causing harm to the environment, avoiding pollution of ecological systems with waste.
Ice and Fire
As a tribute to the memory of warriors and ordinary citizens who died in World War I, sculptor Nele Azevedo placed 5000 small ice figures in the form of seated people on the Chamberlain staircase (Birmingham, Great Britain). Under the influence of the scorching sun they melted, reminding the living now of the illusory and transience of human life. According to eyewitnesses who saw this "memorial", the design touched to the depths of the soul, evoked mixed feelings of gratitude and sadness, leaving an indelible impression.
Mirror Maze
Hyde Park South (Sydney, Australia) thanks to several New Zealand architects turned into an amazing surreal space. Right on the street, more than 80 tall mirror columns were installed, exceeding human growth. Getting into this labyrinth, the illusion of everything that is happening is felt. A huge number of endless reflections creates an atmosphere of fantastic unreality of the surrounding world, blurring the fine line between the present and the looking glass.
Underwear
Karina Keikkonen from Finland uses second-hand clothes and simple clotheslines to create art objects. The sculptor hangs a huge number of men's shirts and jackets of different colors in several rows. Places for Kaarin's installations are chosen by a wide variety of - narrow and wide streets of cities, country houses and villas, gorges, lampposts and others. The artist holds back the deep meaning and value of the works, she believes that each person perceives the projects uniquely, finding their own, unique clothes on the clothesline.
Literature vs. Traffic
One of the streets of Melbourne (Australia) was once blocked, both for pedestrian and automobile traffic. The reason for this was an installation consisting of thousands of open books with LED backlit pages. The project "Literature Against Traffic" was designed to attract public attention to the need for intellectual development, stimulating people to read and self-education. Upon completion of the installation, everyone could take their favorite publications in unlimited quantities.
Tide
The level of the River Thames (London, England) in September varies within a day. At low tide, 4-re sculptures in the form of horsemen, sitting on slightly frightening creatures with a horse's body and a rocking-chair in place of a head, slowly "rise" from the water. The author of the installation, Jason Taylor, explains that it symbolizes the dependence of mankind on fossil energy sources, demonstrates unfavorable natural changes due to their extraction, for example, sea level fluctuations. Adult male riders personify indifference to what is happening, and adolescents - the hope for future changes, the chance of a new generation to protect the Earth from the climate crisis.
Star Prayer
Especially for the ancient Japanese festival of fireflies, Matsushita Corporation created a beautiful installation. It was made 100 thousand unique light bulbs, equipped with a light-emitting diode, a battery and a photoelectric sensor, thanks to which the flashlight caught fire immediately when it came into contact with water. In the evening the Tokyo River was filled with light blue lights, slowly floating along the stream and illuminating the shore with soft fluorescent light.
Valentine from Times Square
On Valentine's Day in New York (USA) there appeared a huge 3-meter sculpture from glass flasks with red lights inside, located in the shape of a heart. The device was connected to the interactive panel next to the installation, on which was the inscription "Touch me" ("Touch me"). Every passer-by, touching it with his hand, controlled the heart, made him beat and burn brighter. The more people touched the original console, the more intense the sculpture shone, reflecting the warmth and energy, the power of love.
Inversion
The city of Houston (Texas, USA) was an art project of two sculptors, Dean Raka and Dan Havel. Between the abandoned and dilapidated houses, previously subject to demolition, the masters created a semblance of a black hole - an opening that sucks in surrounding objects. The purpose of this creation, according to artists, is to remind people of the fragility and paradoxical constancy of the space-time continuum and cosmic matter.
Umbrella sky
A very large-scale art project, launched in Agueda (Portugal), and spread throughout the world, including Russia (St. Petersburg), Kazakhstan (Astana), Ukraine (Kharkov) and other countries, has already acquired the features of a cultural flash mob. The streets and alleys are decorated with many bright and colorful open umbrellas, which are held on a wire frame. Installation does not carry a deep meaning, it simply lifts people's mood and gives joy, and also protects from the scorching sun on hot days.
Towers
Milan University (Italy) is known for frequent installations on the territory of the courtyard in the Renaissance style. One of the most original art projects is work called "Towers" from Sergey Kuznetsov, Sergei Tchoban and Agnia Sterligova. In the center of the lawn is a 12-meter cylinder made of 336 LED monitors. He continuously translates watercolors artists - very accurate and incredibly detailed images of towers and bells from around the world. Above the feature of the green lawn are the tablet panels. Any visitor to the university can draw his own picture and upload it to the video of the cylinder.
Plastic life forms
Sui Pak, a designer and architect from New York (USA), creates intricate and rather strange objects from plastic holders for wires. They look like organic forms of life, striving for some purpose. Many people who have seen Pak's installations associate them with aliens, bacteria, viral cells, infusorians and jellyfish. In general, the art project causes few positive emotions and impressions, rather, it provokes a feeling of disgust and disgust, mixed with the desire to consider plastic formations closer, to touch and make sure of their artificiality.