Art Installations, Sculpture, Contemporary Art

Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka): "Suspended Passage", installation, The Street Arts Festival, 2006, Sotteville-lès-Rouen

www.wela-art.com 

Ryan Gander: "Really Shiny Things That Don’t Mean Anything" (Warsaw, 2011-2012)- is the first installation in the series of artistic interferences in the urban space to be exhibited under the collective title “New place (Tribune)” (the project is a joint initiative of the Warsaw City Hall and the Museum of Modern Art).

British artist, Ryan Gander created a sculptural installation composed of a nearly 3m dia sphere, which imitates a magnet attracting shiny metal-like objects.

Peter Randall-Page: 'Between The Lines', 2007, granite, 178 x 214 x 180 cm

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Marta Pan: Amphitheatre, 2005/2007, Sculpture Park Kröller Müller, Netherlands

Miguel Chevalier and Charles Bove: "Second-Nature", Place d'Arvieux, Marseille, 2010

Second-Nature is a work that combines sustainable real and virtual. This work consists of a sculpture 18 feet high orange color, recalling the shape of a shell or a large sailing ship. From this sculpture, strong signal in the urban space is projected nightly on a portion of the front of the docks, a new virtual garden generative monumental (28 mx 14 m), inspired by Mediterranean flora (cacti, succulents , palm trees?). This virtual garden evolves and becomes infinite as the seasons.
Virtual plants are each autonomous. They arise randomly, bloom and die according to their "morphogenetic code".

Order made under the Marseille-Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture

Sponsor: EuroMéditerranée

ww.miguel-chevalier.com

Cityscape by Arne Quinze in Brussels, 2007

CityScape is a colossal fortress of tangled wood hovering in the heart of Brussels reflecting a frozen moment in time gesturing the increasingly influential city of Brussel within Europe’s capital. The project was funded by MINI for to coincide with the world premiere of the new MINI Clubman Car, which is pretty sweet, though the back reminds me of a refrigerator nostalgically.

CityScape is the vision of designer Arne Quinze who directs the fast paced multidisciplinary firm Quinze&Milan.

http://arnequinze.com/

Chen Zhen: Emerging fountain , 1999-2008, Paris

Dennis Oppenheim: "Battle Drums", Osnabruck, Germany, 2009. Two elements, Water jet cut corten steel, rotating motor, timer, lights.
The starting point for Battle Drums was the Varus Battle of 9 A.D. which took place near the site.
It is this swirl of death, here shown in revolving light, which underlines the universal outcome of all wars.
The battle was a massive attack employing thousands of spears hurdled into the air which rained on trapped and confused approaching Romans soldiers.
Like a torrential rain storm, long steel spears fell upon the approaching soldiers.
Battle Drums focuses on this action and subjects it to motorized revolutions of a turntable producing an endless pattern of cascading spears over and over again on the Romans figures.

http://www.dennis-oppenheim.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

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.

www.wela-art.com

“Agora,” a permanent installation in the Grant Park, Chicago [2004-2006], by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz. It consists of 106 headless armless cast iron figures, each about 9 feet tall, shell like, frozen in walking movement. The figures are similar in general shape, but different in details. Models for each figure were made by hand, by the artist and her three assistants. The surfaces of figures are like a tree bark or wrinkled face expressing a different individuality of each sculpture.

www.abakanowicz.art.pl/

“Hélioflore” by Shigeko Hirakawa: a giant photovoltaic flower that captures solar energy by day, and lights up by night - In Marseille, in Place de la Mairie, 2011

The Chemical Industrialists’ Art in Stuff exhibition, conceived by La Washing Machine, in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Marseille

www.shigeko-hirakawa.com/

Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka): " House of cards for the Queen St. Clotilde", Installation at the Luxembourg Gardens, « Artsénat 2007 », Senate, Paris, 2007

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Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka): « Suspended Passage » Installation, 2006, The Street Arts Festival, Sotteville-lès-Rouen
“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.

www.wela-art.com 

Jaume Plensa : Conversation, 2007, Nice

http://jaumeplensa.com/

Dennis Oppenheim: "Radiant Fountains", 2010, three elements. 65 feet high by 55 feet diameter, stainless steel, acrylic globes, LED strings lights, controller, JFK Blvd, Entrance to the Bush International Airport, Houston, Texas

http://www.dennis-oppenheim.com/

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