Art Installations, Sculpture, Contemporary Art

« Oak Room » by Andy Goldsworthy, 2009, La Coste Castle

Large proportion landscape art by Jim Denevan

http://jimdenevan.com/

Hungarian  artist Gyula Várnai: Now I Know, 2008, installation (various logs), 1000 × 450 × 50 cm

WHAT’S UP? Contemporary Hungarian Art, Kunsthalle Budapest, 2008

http://www.varnaigyula.hu/

Shen Shaomin / 沈少民 : "Bonsai-NO.39", Eli Klein Fine Art, 2007

size: h: 36.6 x w: 54.4 x d: 27.5 in / h: 93 x w: 138.2 x d: 69.8 cm, materials: Plants, iron tools

Shaomin's bonsai works use the manipulation and torture of these plants in order to question our current attitudes towards consumption and nature whilst examining Chinese culture. The intimately scaled, beautiful and ancient looking trees are twisted and buckled using metal instruments reminiscent of dental equipment. Accompanied by text these small objects question the viewers sense of their own environments and the concerned yet oblivious perspective the majority of us exercise on a day-to-day basis.

Aesthetically these small scaled works conjure ideas of destruction versus nurture and traditional versus industrial, awakening the uncanny.

http://www.shenshaomin.com/

http://orientallyyours.tumblr.com/post/48346812641/in-shen-shaomins-bonsai-series-he-has 

The German BUND association advocates for the protection of trees. To do this, the agency Proximity BBDO Germany had the idea of creating a new device combining harmoniously nature and music. They selected a huge chestnut Monbijoupark of Berlin and installed at its base a structure consisting of polymeric membranes. All the chestnuts fallen from the tree automatically are creating a set of sound and light. This poetic installation allows to generate natural music, and famous tree that embodies the strength of all its congeners in urban areas.
Visitors who enjoy this free concert are invited to donate money to the association by SMS.

www.proximity.de/

Maya Lin’s outdoor installation,“Storm King Wavefield” in Mountainville, N.Y., is rows of rolling hills that change with the light and the season.

www.mayalin.com/

Montage - Sören Tali Operator - Meelis Mikker Director - Eva Kübar PATH IN THE FOREST by Tetsuo Kondo Architects Structural engineering by SAPS (Sasaki and…...

http://www.tetsuokondo.jp/

French artist Mathilde Roussel created these amazing grass sculptural installations entitled Lifes of Grass.

"The natural world, ingested as food becomes a component of human being. Through these anthropomorphic and organic sculptures made of soil and wheat grass seeds, I strive to show that food, it’s origin, it’s transport, has an impact on us beyond it’s taste. The power inside it affects every organ of our body. Observing nature and being aware of what and how we eat makes us more sensitive to food cycles in the world – of abundance, of famine – and allows us to be physically, intellectually and spiritually connected to a global reality."

Exhibited at the 2010 Crossing the Line FIAF Festival at Invisible Dog Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

www.mathilderoussel.com/