Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. An installation usually allows the viewer to enter and move around the configured space and/or interact with some of its elements, it offers the viewer a very different experience from a painting or sculpture which is normally seen from a single reference point.
Here are some of the examples for Installation Art:
The beauty in a piece of art may be subjective, but these installations can safely be labelled pretty loo-py. Turkish artist Sakir Gökçebağ used hundreds of toilet rolls in creating his paper installations displayed at a gallery in Germany. The toilet rolls are sprawled across walls or hung elaborately from plinths to ‘bring beauty to the everyday’ in big, flowing pieces of art.
His Zen Garden is a large three-dimensional drawing in black and white. Lines run the length of the main gallery’s floor – interrupted by sporadic ‘rock’ clusters – and evenly spaced rectangles cover the walls. Songailo’s repetitive patterns have a seductive quality to them and the overall effect is not at all frenetic.
Zen Garden is not typical of Songailo’s brightly coloured public installations, however its duo-tone simplicity stands in nice contrast to the artist’s urban body of work. It also makes the hint of pink glimpsed through the doorway of Fontanelle’s second gallery an even more intriguing gesture.
Dan Steinhilber looks at one of his works, in his 2006 solo show at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. Trained in painting — his wife, the painter Maggie Michael, is one of Washington’s leading abstractionists — his art has often explored that art form’s legacy. Here, he’s used knotted balloons to simulate a classic “action painting” of the 1950s. As the balloons deflate, some of its “action” will fade away, too.
Art Blog by Cel 💗 