L’artiste chinois Shi Shaoping présente des clichés de lieux désertiques dans lesquels il a installé 3 000 œufs en céramique. D’un poids de 10kg chacun, il réalise ces œuvres seul, et cherche à symboliser la fragilité et la beauté de la naissance. Des œuvres présentées au Today Art Museum à Beijing.
C’est sur le pont de Williamsburg qu’a investi le street artist originaire de Minneapolis, Hot Tea en installant plus de 2000 fils colorés au dessus de la voie piétonne créant ainsi un arc-en-ciel artificiel 3 mètres au dessus du sol. Une très belle installation éphémère à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
London studio rAndom International has created a 20-metre tower of falling water at a former coal mine in Germany (+ slideshow).
The Tower: Instant Structure for Schacht XII by interactive design studio rAndom International features a rectangular frame from which four huge curtains of water fall to the ground and cycles up to 30,000 litres of water each minute. Visitors can view the rain storm from afar or step inside – if they don’t mind getting wet.
“It is a sensuous adventure: the sound of falling water, the humidity, the glimmering water walls in the sunlight,” said the curators. “The sound of the resulting rain storm is intensely loud and a sensation of moisture lingers in the air.”
“By bringing such large quantities of water into the controlled form of a building, rAndom International investigate if a structural purpose can wrought upon this otherwise chaotic element,” they add.
The monumental Tower structure has been installed at the Zollverein industrial complex in Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, a World Heritage site that consists of a historical coal mine and a range of early twentieth century buildings.
The giant shower forms part of the music and arts festival Ruhr Triennale 2013 and intends to sit in contrast to the “solid and static architecture” of the former coal mine, the curators explain. Each year the international festival transforms industrial venues in the region into locations for music, art and performance events.
Here’s a video featuring the Tower:
The installation was commissioned by arts organisation Urbane Künste Ruhr. It is the first outdoor project by rAndom International and opened in Essen on 23 August. Tower will be open from 10am-1am every day through to 6 October 2013.
Formed in 2005 by former Royal College of Art students Hannes Koch, Florian Ortkrass and Stuart Wood, rAndom International has created a number of installations involving audience participation.
Last year, the studio invited visitors to play in the rain in an installation at the Barbican in London. The rain shower installation was reported to be the most popular installation in the Barbican’s history, with 12 hour queues to get in. Read our original story about the Rain Room »
Other weather-related features to appear on Dezeen recently include a cloud that is caught inside a transparent two-storey cube and a series of indoor clouds.
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Tower: Instant Structure for Schacht XII
Commissioned by Urbane Künste Ruhr for Ruhrtriennale 2013, ‘Tower’ will be on view daily from 10am-1am at night, until 6 October 2013.
Known for their experimental installations that explore natural phenomena, London based studio Random International have created a monumental, performative structure at World Heritage Zollverein using its plentiful, native material: water (6 million cubic metres of which have to be pumped out of the former mines every year to warrant the structural integrity of the entire region).
Random are cycling almost 30,000 litres of water per minute to create a monolithic form, an ephemeral tower that appears and disappears instantaneously. The sound of the resulting rain storm is intensely loud and a sensation of moisture lingers in the air.
Through the senses, ‘Tower’ explores possibilities for engagement wit, and access to, an historic, industrial space at a scale that had not originally been intended for human and social use. In sharp contrast to the solid and static architecture of Zeche Zollverein, the ‘simulated structure’ of the Tower is transient, its watery presence a temporary spectre.
By bringing such large quantities of water into the controlled form of a building, Random International investigate if a structural purpose can wrought upon this otherwise chaotic element. The architecture of the space becomes performative, inviting those within it to experience the water of Zeche Zollverein in a uniquely physical and intimate way. And get absolutely soaked in the process.
About Ruhrtriennale
The Ruhrtriennale is the international arts festival hosted by the Ruhr metropolitan area. The venues of the Ruhrtriennale are the region’s outstanding industrial monuments, transformed each year into spectacular sites for music, fine art, theatre, dance, and performance. At the centre of all this are contemporary artists seeking a dialog with industrial spaces and between the disciplines.
A new artistic director every three years provides the festival with ever-new impulses. Under the artistic directorship of Heiner Goebbels, the Ruhrtriennale will become a laboratory and an open platform for current developments of the international world of the arts.
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Le designer américain Stefan Sagmeister a crée The Happy Show. Avec The Bicycle Installation dont les néons actionnés par le pédalage des spectateurs diffusent des maximes, elle propose aux spectateurs une réflexion sur la signification du Bonheur. Une installation à découvrir en exclusivité à la Gaîté Lyrique du 28 novembre 2013 au 9 mars 2014 et à découvrir en images dans la suite.
SOFTlab, a New York-based design studio, recently took on the challenge of creating a piece to be featured in the Sonos Studio in Los Angeles. The only instruction…
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L’artiste et designer Gerry Judah a imaginé cette sculpture impressionnante propulsant 3 voitures emblématiques de la marque Porsche installée à 35 mètres de haut dans le ciel. Commandée par Porsche Great Britain pour les 50 ans de la Porsche 911, découvrez cette installation dans l’article.
L’artiste Henrique Oliveira envahit le palais de Tokyo avec sa gigantesque installation Baitogogo : structure végétale, elle s’oppose à l’espace urbain dans lequel elle s’inscrit. Réflexion sur l’expansion sauvage et spontanée des villes brésiliennes, il suggère que les constructions humaines se développent organiquement.
Proposed for NYC’s historical Battery Park, the ALIS bench serves as both commodity and art. Lightweight & durable, the ergonomic sections are constructed through the process of renewable resource plastic injection molding, common in the structuring of urban playground equipment. Using unique “fiber logic” reinforcement, ALIS efficiently redistributes external forces through its composite skin system. As night falls, each section illuminates from within to reveal a beautiful web of the fibrous internal strands.
ALIS efficiently redistributes external forces through its composite skin system. This skin system maintains a constant surface enclosure thickness while responding to areas of higher impact stress by the integration of fiber bundles. The networking of these bundles comes together to form deeper cross sections in material thickness thus providing optimum structural integrity. Subversive by day, these strands emerge as the sun sets to establish an alternate formal dimension.
Designers: Edward Kim, Tommaso Casucci, Charles Jones, Mike Nesbit
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More showers! These hybrid shower-lights were created by Japanese designers Nendo for bathroom brand Axor and unveiled last week alongside the multi-headed shower by Front (+ slideshow).
Nendo’s installation combines showers with lamps, with the installation featuring ceiling lights and a floor light that produce a cascade of water from their shades.
“My aim was to combine what is most archetypal about the living space, the lighting, with water, so as to give the shower an enhanced sensuous dimension in a way we have not yet seen before,” says Oki Sato of Nendo. “The result is something that is not just a shower, nor just a lamp, but a hybrid – a magic trick with light and water that is available day after day.”
The installation is part of Axor’s WaterDream project, which investigates potential future bathroom scenarios.
“The natural coming-together of light and water is freed from spatial constraints,” says Philippe Grohe, head of Axor, which is part of German bathroom brand Hansgrohe. “What traditionally took place in separate rooms – reading under a lamp in the living room, taking a shower in the bathroom – can now be experienced free from spatial allocations or confinements.”
Nendo’s installation was presented alongside the copper-pipe installation by Swedish designers Front, which we published earlier.
Axor regularly collaborates with leading designers. Earlier this year it unveiled a new water-saving faucet by Philippe Starck and previous projects include a full bathroom collection by the Bouroullec Brothers and a range by Jean-Marie Massaud.
See more projects by Nendo, including a shoe store clad in shoes and bowls that quiver in the wind.
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