Art Installations, Sculpture, Contemporary Art

Tanya Preminger: "Round Balance", 2008,  Soil, grass,  900 x 900 x 260 cm, Saint-Flour, France

www.tanyapreminger.com/

Andy Goldsworthy: Icespiral / Icestar

The work of Scottish environmental/land artist Andy Goldsworthy takes our breath away. Nature will always produce the most amazing formations, but Goldsworthy's simple manipulation of natural materials, often in their immediate landscape, is stunning. He then leaves these works to absorb back into the land -- a distinct comment on man-made vs. the natural ebb and flow of life

David Nash: : "Ash Dome", 2004 (planted in 1977), Flestiniog

Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka): Light Installation in a public garden of 500 decorated tubes and including integrated lighting. The Street Arts Festival, Sottevile-lès-Rouen, 2006

A light installation composed of drawings on transparent tubular supports. Drawings, multiplied into several columns, fluttering on the wind, are deployed in spatial and poetic. The installation aims to take the viewer into the imaginary dimension between reality and unreality, between artistic creation and nature, between spirituality and materiality. Involving the relationship with the environment, the work is also measured at the place where it is exposed to the audience and to create a kind of "total art work".

www.wela-art.com 

Janet Echelman, She Changes, 2005, Waterfront plaza, Porto and Matosinhos, Portugal, height 50 m X 150 m X 150 meters, Tenara® PTFE architectural fiber, Commission for Praca Cidade Salvador
This work is a permanent, monumental public sculpture to use an entirely soft and flexible set of membranes moving fluidly in wind. The work casts cinematic shadow drawings onto the ground further highlighting the “wind choreography.”

http://www.echelman.com/

Shigeko Hirakawa
Nature 13 - Tree of Photosynthesis, The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2009

"The aims of Tree of Photosynthesis visualize the photosynthesis of plants, in which chlorophyll is the catalyst.

"Tree of Photosynthesis" was realized for the first time in autumn 2006, two and a half years following its conception, with full support from the French City of Argenteuil, thanks to their understanding of the importance of the project, and every day the tree was allowed to do its work of reviving photosynthesis. The discs which changed color in reaction to changes in the weather were attractive enough to awaken the curiosity of passersby, who ended up watching them for the two-month duration of the show. It would have been worth this artwork being amongst these people if, by their interest in the plastic discs, they had been brought to an awareness of the daily natural metamorphoses of the tree itself." Sh.H.

www.shigeko-hirakawa.com/

Ludwika Ogorzelec, “Mist” from the Space Crystallization Cycle, 2007, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

http://ludwika.ogorzelec.free.fr/

Arne Quinze: "Camille", 2010, Rouen

http://arnequinze.com/

Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka): Sculpture-Installation "The pedestal for a tree" made for the Museum of Contemporary Sculpture "Europos Parkas, 2000, Vilnius, Lithuania

The philosophical tribute to the tree as a creation, which may be more complete, more complex than the creation of an artist? The viewer can physically and mentally take his own position towards the work of a creator and the work of nature. The stairs are oriented towards the four cardinal points, as an input and an output to the world.

www.wela-art.com

http://www.europosparkas.lt/ 

"Cityscape"-Created for the duration of two years the Quartier Louise in Brussels was enlightened by wooden sculpture created Arne Quinze. September 2009.

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Bob Verschueren: "The vegetable kingdom", 2010. The artist uses trees and branches from the garden of Chaumont-sur-Loire to create impressive sculptures depicting the beauty but also the decay of things. An invitation to meditation.

http://www.bobverschueren.net/

Tanya Preminger: "Ritual Cut", 2009, Earth, grass, 4.5 x 60 x 75 m, Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum, Latvia.

www.tanyapreminger.com/

Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka): light installation "Constellation imaginary", the Futuroscope, Poitiers, 2009

Wela's work consists of a light installation composed of fluid drawings transposed on tubular  translucent supports (50 different works). The drawings, multiplied columns oscillating  with the wind, are deployed in spatial and poetic. The wish of the artist is to bring visitors to develop their imagination between reality and fiction, between artistic creation and nature, or between spirituality and materiality. Playing or contrasting with the site-specific architectures, these structures offer a light and graceful reverie pleasant break between two shows, both day and night.

www.wela-art.com

Ludwika Ogorzelec: sculpture from "Space crystalisation" cycle during "Floating Land" art Symposium in Noosa, Queensland, Australia 2005
15 km of cellophane line (7m x 50m x 10m)

http://ludwika.ogorzelec.free.fr/

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.

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Shigeko Hirakawa,  Appel d'air/ Intake of Air 2010, Botanical Garden in Rouen, France

Production in the framework of the exhibition "Rouen impressionnée".
From the "Air in Peril" Project, Molecule of Oxygen installaion

www.shigeko-hirakawa.com/

Arne Quinze: "Camille", 2010, Rouen

http://arnequinze.com/

Patrick Dougherty: Na Hale ‘o waiawi [*]. The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii (2003)
* Roughly translated from the Hawaiian language: Wild Dwellings Built from Strawberry Guava | Photographer: Paul Kodama

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Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka): “Multiplication” comprises an ensemble of black and white drawings on tubular supports hanging from a plane tree. Installation made for The Street Arts Festival, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, 2006, mixed media

www.wela-art.com