what i don’t know about space_esther stocker

Esther Stocker’s, “What I don’t Know About Space” Installation at Museum 52 in London.

(image from Esther Stocker site)

CHROMAtex.me_SOFTlab

 

Installation by SOFTlab at Bridge Gallery in New York City.  I (heart) binder clips for construction.

(images from bridge gallery)

shiny rings

Suspended Harness rings above in Frye Boots store in Soho.

(image by: vivien chin)

take me (i’m yours)

Fun with lighting.  Installation at a jcrew store on 5th ave.

 

(image by: vivien chin)

quadratura

Beautiful installation using light and architecture.

Here’s the description from the artist, Pablo Valbuena’s, website:

“Site-specific installation. Matadero Madrid. ES. 2010. Video projection on architecture.

Quadratura was the technique used in the baroque to extended architecture through trompe l’oeil and perspective constructions generated with paint or sculpture.

The site-specific installation presented at Matadero Madrid follows the same principles but manipulating space by means of projected light. The main axis of the room of Abierto x Obras is extended and the limits of the physical space dissolved.”

(images from Pablo Valbuena’s site)

last week’s desk view: nyc grows_earth day

Really nice little green installation in Union Square this week for Earth Day.

(images by: vivien chin)

whiteout_spaceoperaform

Really cool installation that reacts to the static charge of its visitors.  Located in a former salt factory in Hallein, Austria, and is made up of parallel hung, thermally-bonded polypropylene filaments, suspended from the ceiling.  The project is called WhiteOut and is designed by SpaceOperaForm.  Beautiful….

(images from dezeen)

most curious_tracey neuls & nina saunders

“Most Curious” an installation by Tracey Neuls and Nina Saunders.  Love its whimsical nature.  Reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.  I would love wearing those shoes.  They look so fun.

(images from dezeen)

stone sky_turrell

Installation by James Turrell for Norman and Norah Stone at their Napa estate.  A perfect stone pavillion set on an infinity pool with viewing to the sky in the interior of the cube.  Beautiful reflections of the sky on the face of the stone are stunning.  (Thanks Stella for the find!)

(images from Stonescape and Into the Studio)

“blue sticks”

“blue sticks” by claude cormier

I have a soft spot for architectural landscape art and installation.  Featured in book, “avant gardeners: visionary designers for the contemporary landscape”

 

(image from Designboom)

legos!_dispatchwork_berlin

Jan Vormann‘s project, “Dispatchwork”, shows up in Berlin.  He fills holes left on/in buildings remaining from World War II with LEGOS!  He has also done this in Italy and Isreal.  In Berlin, many spontaneous people started helping him fill the bullet holes with Lego bricks at a building of Humbold University. 

Awesome project!  Love this idea!  Very fun and creative and gets people involved.

(images from Likecool)

il fiore di novembre

Installation by Italian designer, Fabio Novembre, is on show at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.  Each mosaic covered partition represent a flower when viewed from the front. The spaces between showcase different pieces of his work.  Installation open until May 17, 2009

(images from Dezeen)

“playing the building” by david byrne

(images by: vivien chin)

Here is a installation my cousins and I found last year when were around the South Ferry area.  The installation was called “Playing the Building” by artist David Burne.  It’s a pretty interesting installation.  I loved the space (the Battery Maritime Building) that it was in and the concept behind the installation was very cool.  There is a piano in the middle of the space which has wires coming from it that are attached to different parts of the space rigged with some sound producing element–banging pipes, squeaking, etc.  Visitors are encouraged to go play around on the piano to produce different combinations of sounds