Tag: installation art

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Tarik Kiswanson

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Tarik Kiswanson (-1986) is a visual artist and poet from Halmstad, Sweden.Kiswanson received his MFA from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and BFA from Central Saint Martins-University of the Arts London.The artist comes from a Palestinian family that was exiled from Jerusalem to North Africa and then Jordan before subsequently settling in Sweden in the early 1980s.Kiswanson transforms sculpture into a highly experiential artform.He employs simple-seeming objects to conjure the sense of rootlessness that pervades our age.Accordingly, what stands out from the empty wardrobes, cribs, cocoons, and chairs that recur in his installations is their overall impression of weightlessness.Kiswanson borrows from Minimalism, and, in his rejection of simplified geometry and form, ushers in a new type of abstract sculpture.

More of Tarik Kiswanson’s abstract presentations can be found at https://tarikkiswanson.com/

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Nike Savvas

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Nike Savvas is a senior Australian Artist based between Sydney and London.Much of Savvas’ work has consisted of largescale installations that translate painting into three dimensions, and popular culture into high art.Her minimalistic installations utilize repetition of simplistic forms often in the thousands, creating order within an apparent scattered chaos of separate elements.Breaking down the boundaries of high art, Savvas aims to create works that a playful and accessible by all, with her works open to drawing a multiplicity of meanings from each viewer’s interpretation.Savvas has a reputation for creating art that pulls you in for a surreal experience. What is more, the creation is full of life.Her minimalistic installations utilize repetition of simplistic forms often in the thousands, creating order within an apparent scattered chaos of separate elements.Breaking down the boundaries of high art, Savvas aims to create works that a playful and accessible by all, with her works open to drawing a multiplicity of meanings from each viewer’s interpretation.Her objects and installations often invite the viewer to partake in the active experience of her work, by physically shifting, repositioning and refocusing their gaze, in order to unveil ever-changing facets to the works.

 

More of Nike Savvas’ amazing installation art can be found at https://nikesavvas.com/.

 

 

 

Unique Saturday Art

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Unique: being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else.
Unique: being without a like or equal.
Unique: being the only existing one of its type; more generally, unusual, or special in some way.

Unique is different for everyone. Here are a few Installation Art Works that are definitely unique — have fun!

 

I See What You Mean – Lawrence Argent

 

Carhenge –  Jim Reinders

 

Forever Bicycle — Ai Weiwei

 

Yarn Bombing — Unknown Artist

 

The Soul Trembles — Chiharu Shiota

 

Humus – Giuseppe Licari

 

Balloon Dog — Jeff Koons

 

Long Term Parking — Armand Pierre Fernandez

 

The Fremont Troll — Fremont Arts Council

 

Controller Of The Universe – Damian Ortega

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ran Hwang

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Ran Hwang is a sculptural artist primarily known for her mixed-media work with buttons, beads, pins, and thread.

Born in the Republic of Korea in 1960, Hwang currently lives and works in both Seoul and New York City. 

 

Hwang creates large iconic figures that embody her preoccupation with the nature of cyclical life, non-visibility and the beauty of a transient moment.

The artist creates iconic figures that embody her preoccupation with the nature of cyclical life, non-visibility and the beauty of transient glamor.

Her installation works often crosses three-dimensional boundaries.Although her work often references classical Asian motifs, Hwang reinterprets these images through her medium, redefining her cultural heritage.

Hwang is best known for her large-scale wall installations in which buttons, beads, pins, and threads on wood panels form images of falling blossoms, vases, Buddhas, and birds.

To construct much of her work, Hwang creates paper buttons by hand, hammering each one approximately twenty-five times until it is secure.

Her process requires the utmost concentration and discipline, recalling the meditative state practiced by Zen masters.

More of Ran Hwang‘s amazing work can be found at https://www.ranhwang.com/ and http://www.leilahellergallery.com/artists/ran-hwang.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rune Guneriussen

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Rune Guneriussen’s conceptual work, somewhere between installation and photography, features site-specific installations throughout his native Norway.Born in 1977, Guneriussen studied at Eiker College and received a BA in photography at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design.Using an artistic process that concerns the object, locale, and time of installation, Guneriussen takes photographs using a large-format view camera that documents the existence of the installation itself.The resulting photographs illustrate attentive handling and a recognition of light to form a new idea of reality.Mixing rural landscapes with everyday objects such as desk lamps or books, Guneriussen’s analogous application of material and space correlates to humans’ connection to the planet.As an artist, Guneriussen believes that art itself should be questioning and bewildering as opposed to patronizing and restricting.As opposed to the current fashion, he does not want to dictate a way to the understanding of his art, but rather indicate a path to understanding a story.

More of Rune Guneriussen’s installation work can be found at http://www.runeguneriussen.no/ and https://www.scandinaviastandard.com/artist-spotlight-norwegian-conceptual-artist-rune-guneriussen/.

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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Pablo Reinoso

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Pablo Reinoso is a multidisciplinary artist known for his sculptures and public installations. Born in Buenos Aires and living in Paris since 1978,  Reinoso combines surrealistic concepts with furniture design to create immersive structures using wood, stone, and metal.His passion for the arts developed at a young age, and he studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires before fleeing to Paris in 1978 to escape the political upheaval in Argentina.The artist creates his artwork through different series where he crosses, grinds up, rummages through, and explores different worlds and materials.Having studied architecture but being multifaceted, curious, and often self-taught, Reinoso has always straddled disciplines (sculpture, photography, architecture, design).A constant feature in his work is his penchant for endlessly questioning, subverting, using materials or objects against their grain, bringing opposites together, and playing with the limits of impossibility. “The extravagance of spirals and twists in my sculptures has led some critics to describe my art as “baroque,” but in truth, I always create my pieces with minimalism in mind.,” Reinoso says.“Though winding, the lines are always clean and distinct, and monochromatic tones have permeated my collections across the years.”More of Pablo Reinoso‘s wonderful designs can be found at https://www.pabloreinoso.com/.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ernesto Neto

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Ernesto Neto is a Brazilian Conceptual artist whose installations offer a chance for the viewer to touch, see, smell, and feel his artworks for a truly sensory experience.Neto was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from a generation of Brazilian artists that witnessed the more liberal approach to art that arose during the 1950s and 1960s.Neto has produced an influential body of work that explores constructions of social space and the natural world by inviting physical interaction and sensory experience.Most of his sculptural environments are site-specific crocheted nets and cocoons, sewed with nylon, and often carrying surprising substances.Aromatic spices, candies, sand and colorful Styrofoam balls are stuffed into these nets creating pendulous sculptures that fall like raindrops from the ceiling.Other times Neto creates human-scale spaces that appear almost surreal.He works with transparent materials and unusual textures, attending to both the inside and outside of the sculptures.The resulting shelters or vessels, unlike conventional architecture, are meant to be experienced as nature: his materials beg to be touched.More of Ernesto Neto‘s amazing work can be found at http://www.artnet.com/artists/ernesto-neto/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Alex Chinneck

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British sculptor Alex Chinneck creates temporary surreal architectural sculptures that show social awareness, humor, and an interest in regeneration.

The artist is a Chelsea College of Art alumnus and is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.His work animates the surrounding urban landscape in an ingenious combination of engineering, architecture, and art.Chinneck’s pieces merge sculpture with architecture to create masterpieces that play with both our visual and social expectations.“I like to make work that blends in with its surroundings, but which at the same time stands out,” Chinneck says. “Illusions are visually engaging, mesmerizing and accessible – everyone can understand and enjoy them.”More of Alex Chinneck‘s sculptural creations can be found at https://www.alexchinneck.com/.