KVP301 Resource Folio: Installation Art

THE GLUE SOCIETY

· Sydney/New York-based creative collective, the Glue Society

· formed in Sydney, Australia, in 1998 by Jonathan Kneebone and Gary Freedman

· Reject both the title "agency”

· They're creative-content providers, pure and simple.

· Cross-media thinkers.

· Projects includes

o Sculpture

o graphic design

o web sites and viral campaigns

o traditional TV advertising

o print

o short films

· Hot with the Chance of a Late Storm

o Sculpture of a melted ice cream van

o Installed on Tamarama Beach near Sydney in November 2006.

o Part of the 2006 Sculpture by the Sea fair.

The Glue Society (n.d.) The Glue Society. Retrieved from http://www.gluesociety.com/

TADASHI KAWAMATA

· Turning Trash into Public Sculpture & Installation Art

· Installations:

o composed of found objects

o construction remnants and other offbeat materials

· urban

· site-specific

· grow to monstrous proportions in public spaces.

· challenging highly populated built environments

· structure and forms composed of common materials

o usually ignored

o but impossible to miss in his massive installations

(often stack up objects in highly public spaces)

Dornob Design Daily (n.d.) Turning Trash into Public Sculpture & Installation Art. Retrieved from http://dornob.com/turning-trash-into-public-sculpture-installation-art/

ROSE SKINNER

· lives and works in Perth, Western Australia

· Top : IMAGINOPOLIS (2010)

· Bottom: LLAMALAND (2009)

Skinner, R. (2009) Imaginopolis at Bread Box Gallery. Retrieved from http://www.roseskinner.com/index.php?p=1_4_Installations

ERNESTO NETO

Brazilian Artist
Installations

large, soft sculptures that fill an exhibition space
viewers can touch, poke, and sometimes walk on or through.

made of white, stretchy, stocking-like material
stuffed with Styrofoam pellets or sometimes, aromatic spices.

Below left: ANTHROPODINO
2009
New York’s Park Avenue Armory
Filling the 5,100 m² hall

Everyday Facts.net (2010, 8 July) Ernesto Neto Art Installations. Retrieved from http://www.everydayfacts.net/2010/07/ernesto-neto-art-installations/

HENK HOFSTRA

· Dutch artist

· Art Eggcident

o Public art

o several 30-metre wide fried eggs cracked open along the Zaailand

o Zaailand: one of the Netherland’s largest open squares.

o The largest eggs are totally flat

o the smaller ones have a three-dimensional “yolk”

§ perfect for climbing on and sitting on

Shape + Colour (n.d.) Henk Hofstra: Art Eggcident. Retrieved from

http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/henk-hofstra-art-eggcident/

BRAD DOWNEY

Castles beneath Cities 2008
Louisville-born, Berlin-based artist
by unearthing German street stones to create sand castles
impromptu 3D installations

Schmelzer, P. (2007) Brad Downey in Germany: Beneath the Paving Stones. Retrieved from

http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/2010/08/brad-downey-in-germany-beneath-paving.html

ANDREA MASTROVITO

the Dior Homme store in Paris
9,000 fantasy like butterfly silhouettes

making their way through the boutiques white walls and ceiling.

Ambushu.com (2009) Andrea Mastrovito butterfly installation at Dior homme paris. Retrieved from

http://www.ambushu.com/blog/ambush/fashion-ambush/andrea-mastrovito-butterfly-installation-at-dior-homme-paris/

YAYOI KUSAMA

· Japanese-American Artist

· Lives and works in Tokyo

· painter, sculptor and environmental artist for the past 50 years.

· uses images of nets, dots, repeated patterns and mirrors as ways of understanding and coming to terms with the vastness of life.

· Infinity Rooms:

o Right: Soul under the moon 2002 (Gallery of Modern Art)

o Top: Fireflies on Water 2002 (Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art)

· Central Themes:

§ reflection, repetition and infinity

· The viewer may become confused and disoriented

· The conventional purpose of a room is to contain and define a space

o by contrast, Kusama’s rooms appear expansive and limitless.

· Experience:

o similar to gazing at a clear night sky full of stars:

o eventually, the sense of infinity is overwhelming and all-consuming.

Resneck, J. (2007, 3 August) Yayoi Kusama. Retrieved from

http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/yayoi-kusama.php

LEANDRO ERLICH

Swimming pool 2010

Timber, swimming pool ladder, plexiglass and water

· Installations:

o familiar spaces - apartment buildings, hairdressing salons, and gallery spaces

§ used in unexpected and confounding ways

§ Basic laws of physics are seemingly inverted

o Viewers:

§ plunged into environments that both confuse and delight the senses.

· Swimming pool:

· gallery space is transformed into a swimming pool

o with timber decking, ladder and lapping water.

o Approaching the edge of the pool, visitors are further confounded by the sight of people walking underneath the water.

Queensland Art Gallery (2011) Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool. Retrieved from

http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/21st_Century/artists/leandro_erlich

Martin Creed

Work No. 956 2008: Half the air in a given space (purple) 2008

Purple balloons

Multiple parts, each balloon 28cm diameter

Installed size variable

Born in Scotland but Lives in London, England
Illuminate the objects, spaces and logic of our daily lives.

Makes art from things we take for granted
Enacts a shift in the way we look at and think about familiar objects and situations.
Transforms mundane materials into highly affecting installations and objects.

For Work No. 956: Half the air in a given space (purple) 2008

gallery space filled with approximately 3000 purple balloons.
profoundly affects the viewer’s spatial and bodily awareness.
an infectious sense of humour and surprise.

Queensland Art Gallery (2011) Martin Creed: Work No. 956. Retrieved from

http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/21st_Century/artists/martin_creed

Xu Zhen

ShanghART Supermarket (Australia) 2007-08

Mixed media installation

Lives and works in Shanghai

ShanghART Supermarket (Australia)

An incisive + humorous comment on the growth of consumer society

inside and outside China.

Reconstructs a typical modern Chinese supermarket in appearance

fully stocked, but with empty packages.
an ironic and complex statement on the art world
hinting: inflated market prices and voracious demand for contemporary Chinese art.

Queensland Art Gallery (2011) Xu Zhen: ShanghART Supermarket. Retrieved from

http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/21st_Century/artists/xu_zhen

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