Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka): "Suspended passage", The Street Arts Festival, "Viva Cite", Sotteville-lès-Rouen, 2006, high 6 metres, diameter 5 metres, forex, metal, mine of lead, engine
“Suspended Passage ” continues Wela’s research on the “Unreal realities” The artist aim is to co-create with the spectator the totality of the virtual reality of drawing, time and space. The work consist of an open space formed by two cylindrical forex walls, six metres high and four metres in diameter, inside which the artist has drawn in pencil. In the centre of the cylinder there is a rerolling column in highly polished stainless steel which reflects both the artist drawing and the external environment destabilised by the presence of the spectator. The perpetual movement of a multitude of variations which depends on the position, the movement, and the time of observation.
Anish Kapoor: "Cloud Gate", sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park, 2004
Made up of 168 stainless steel plates welded together, its highly polished exterior has no visible seams. It is 33 by 66 by 42 feet (10 by 20 by 13 m), and weighs 110 short tons (100 t; 98 long tons). Said to have been inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture's surface reflects and distorts the city's skyline. Visitors are able to walk around and under Cloud Gate's 12-foot (3.7 m) high arch. On the underside is the "omphalos" (Greek for "navel"), a concave chamber that warps and multiplies reflections. The sculpture builds upon many of Kapoor's artistic themes, and is popular with tourists as a photo-taking opportunity for its unique reflective properties.
Jarosław Kozakiewicz: Mars Project, Boxberg, Lausitz Lake District, Germany, 2003
The Mars Project is one of the works of the series Landscapes. The Concept of a Humanistic Theory of the Solar System, based on exploring the relationships between man and the cosmos.
Anish Kapoor: "Leviathan", Grand Palais, Paris, 2011
Leviathan is a gigantic installation made from 18 tonnes of PVC, which fills the nave of the Grand Palais in Paris and encompasses 13,500 sq. m of space. The huge biomorphic form consists of four connected orbs supported not by a steel skeleton but with air, which is pumped continuously into the structure.
The Singing Ringing Tree is located at Crown point, overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire. Completed in 2006, it is part of the series of four sculptures within the Panopticons arts and regeneration project. The project "was set up to erect a series of 21st-century landmarks, or Panopticons (structures providing a comprehensive view), across East Lancashire as symbols of the renaissance of the area. Designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu, the Singing Ringing Tree is "constructed from pipes of galvanised steel, which harnesses the energy of the prevailing winds", to produce a slightly discordant and penetrating choral sound covering a range of several octaves. Some of the pipes are primarily structural and aesthetic elements, while others have been "cut across their width enabling the sound". The harmonic and "singing" qualities of the tree were produced by tuning the pipes "according to their length by adding holes to the underside of each". In 2007, the sculpture won (along with 13 other candidates) the National Award of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for architectural excellence.
Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka) - permanent interactive installation "The Whisperers", the Copernicus Science Centre, Dicovery Parc, Warsaw, 2011
Installation "The Whisperers" consists of 16 stainless steel columns put in the middle of the park of discovery. The columns are equipped with sensors and speakers in order to detect visitors and distribute natural sounds such as the whisper of a stream, rain, wind, volcano, etc. People can do real-time sound spatialization on the type of sound and played on the sound effects. The visual and sound installation, compared to contemporary organs, symbolizes a virtual-real time in which we live and transports the viewer to the fourth more spiritual dimension. The installation also shows the paradox of contemporary man desire to approach to nature by artificial means.
Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka) - Permanent interactive installation "The Whisperers" for the Copernicus Science Centre* in Warsaw
Installation "The Whisperers" consists of 16 stainless steel columns put in the middle of the park of discovery. The columns are equipped with sensors and speakers in order to detect visitors and distribute natural sounds such as the whisper of a stream, rain, wind, volcano, etc. People can do real-time sound spatialization on the type of sound and played on the sound effects. The visual and sound installation, compared to contemporary organs, symbolizes a virtual-real time in which we live and transports the viewer to the fourth more spiritual dimension. The installation also shows the paradox of contemporary man desire to approach to nature by artificial means.
*The Copernicus Science Centre (in Polish: Centrum Nauki Kopernik) is a science museum standing on the bank of the Vistula River in Warsaw. It contains over 350 interactive exhibits that enable visitors to single-handedly carry out experiments and discover the laws of science for themselves. Many artworks have been installed in and around the Centre. The Centre is the largest institution of its type in Poland and one of the most advanced in Europe.
Jon Barlow Hudson: "Cloud Hands", 1994, Europos Parkas - Open Air Museum for Contemporay Art, Vilnius, Lithuania,
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Artist especially likes working with it on a Large-Scale Sculpture because of the intensified relationship to nature that results from the impressive physical experience of large blocks of stone, as seen in his Cloud Hands, for example.
Roxy Paine "Maelstrom", 2009, Metropolitan Museum's Roof Garden, New York
Maelstrom asserts that man and human culture are not removed from, but very much a part of nature. The sculpture’s network of branches mimics organic and biological systems as well as industrial systems, such as plumbing and piping, thus pointing to the connection between the natural world and the built environment.
Greyworld: "The Source", an eight storey high kinetic sculpture, London Stock Exchange, 2004
A cube of 9x9x9 (729 in total) spherical balls are suspended on strings that stretch 32 metres up to the top of the main atrium of the newly designed building. These balls, controlled by a computer running Python scripts, can reposition themselves independently of each other, forming dynamic shapes and fluid-like motions that reflects the nature of the stock market itself. Each morning, upon the opening of the London Stock Exchange, the balls awake from their cube arrangement and begin to form patterns. Similarly, at the end of each day’s trading, the balls fall back into their cube arrangement, and an animated arrow is shown using the blue LEDs inside the balls to show how the stock market performed on that particular day.
Listening to the sounds of garden. Jann Rosen Queralt: "Cultivus Loci: Aero", 1998, Europos Parkas - Open Air Museum of Contemporary Scupture, Vilnius, Lithuania Detail: Ear Trumpet (40’ x 15’ x 3’) aluminum, brass, and painted steel
"The relationship beetween music and nature inspiredthis work. Wather courses throught a streabed on the grounds of the Evergreen Estate. Its level rises and falls as the seasons cycle. The wather sonds vibrate through yhe atmosphere, and patterns of light are reflectedon its surface. The continuous flow can be altered by a droplet, and the ripples that form, like the imagined vibrations from the music, become one with the surrounding environment. This process represents communication between the heavens and the earth, creating a place for thereflection." J-R. Q.
Triangles, cymbals, tubes, xylophone,... others Experiences Garden in Krakow is the first sensory educational park in Poland. Experiences Garden is more than 50 interactive installations in a separate six acre area, surrounded by trees. Each installation presents a selection of natural phenomena. In the Garden, you can explore the world using all senses.
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