Installation Art

Discover 12 award-winning designs tagged Installation Art on A Design Magazine.

Brand: Shih-Yuan Wang and Yu-Ting Sheng Design Type: Installation Art Category: Fine Art

Coralarc

Coralarc utilizes algorithms to simulate the rules of pushing, and growing among cells. After dynamic stacking along the time axis, it gradually forms an organic curved surface. The work utilizes transparent materials to express the beautiful changing form and pure luster of undersea corals, while its colors are the coexistences of the people interacting with the lights, as well as the scenery on the beautiful bay. Through the properties of material, it echoes the endless coastline and sky when the viewer looks out at the sea, and shows different appearances in different periods.

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Brand: Lee Chi Design Type: Installation Art Category: Fine Art

Inorganic Mineral

Inspired by profound feelings towards nature and experience as an architect, Lee Chi focuses on the creation of unique botanical art installations. By reflecting upon the nature of art and researching creative techniques, Lee transforms life events into formalized artworks. The theme of this series of works is to investigate the nature of materials and how materials can be reconstructed by the aesthetic system and new perspective. Lee also believes that the redefinition and reconstruction of plants and other artificial materials may make natural landscape have an emotional impact on people.

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Brand: Jin Ying Yei Tao Pottery Ltd Design Type: Installation Art Category: Fine Art

Endless Succession

Endless Succession is a ceramic landmark installed at the entrance of the Neidong National Forest Recreation Area in Taiwan. The form resembles an upright figure eight, suggesting the infinity symbol, and recalls the parabola of the Xinxian Waterfall. The permeable structure acts as an archway that leads visitors into the forest. Green surfaces carry red and black Atayal totems and relief carvings of local species, including butterflies, birds and tree frogs. The clay and glaze are fired above 1,200 degrees Celsius, making the handmade work weather resistant, colorfast and safe to touch.

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Brand: doT & associates Design Type: Installation Art Category: Fine Art

Wind Crystals

Wind Crystals is an outdoor art installation built in Budai County, Taiwan. The work recalls the local salt industry through forms based on salt crystals. Mahogany wood is cut at two special angles to create tapered polygonal frames, which are joined into a truss structure that can be extended freely. Only two component types form the whole body, so the parts are prepared in a factory and the on-site assembly time is kept short. The installation covers 24 square meters and turns with the sea breeze, following light and shadow along the coast.

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Brand: Chih-Kang Chu Design Type: Installation Art Category: Fine Art

Blessing from the Sea

Blessing from the Sea is an outdoor art installation placed between the beach and the sea in Pingtung, Taiwan. The work takes the shape of a church and is built from a metal structure, a metal panel base and white fabric strips. When the air is calm, the structure stands quiet. When the seasonal mountain wind blows, the fabric strips move and reveal the force of the wind. The center of the base is cut out, so the work can shift with the tide and avoid being buried in sand. Eight spotlights light the work at night.

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Brand: doT & associates Design Type: Installation Art Category: Fine Art

Crowd Gathering of Dots

Crowd Gathering of Dots is an art installation created for the lobby of a hotel in Tainan, Taiwan. The work covers a surface of 100 square meters. Handmade ceramic spheres are arranged across the wall to suggest the flow and spatial tension of a gathering crowd. Each sphere is finished with a glossy black glaze that reflects the appearance of every visitor. Because the spheres are shaped by hand, each one differs slightly. Bronze and gold feet hold the spheres in place, and light projection creates changing three dimensional shadows.

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Brand: CHIH LIANG LIU Design Type: Installation Art Category: Lighting

Light Weaving

Light Weaving is an outdoor lighting installation shaped as a Christmas tree. The structure is made of laser cut stainless steel pipes forming 80 triangle units joined by more than 240 welded points. Acrylic yarn is woven by hand over the metal frame, following the weaving techniques of the indigenous people of Taiwan. Computer controlled LED lights and a light sensor adjust the colors to a timing system and to natural light, and the tone stays blue at midnight. The design brings delicate woven craft outdoors for public viewing.

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Brand: CHIH LIANG LIU Design Type: Installation Art Category: Lighting

Blossoming Light

Blossoming Light is an outdoor lighting installation shaped like a giant flower. The structure is 7 meters high and 4 meters in diameter. Square stainless steel tubes form 88 triangular sections joined by more than 440 welded joints. The surface carries nearly 60,000 LED light points, allowing video to be shown across a full 360 degree view. Computer timing and a light sensor adjust the lights to natural and environmental conditions. The colors change slowly to suggest the passing of the four seasons. Six groups of metal flower decorations hold artificial flower arrangements.

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Brand: Yu-Liang Chen, NewLocal Art Studio Design Type: Installation Art Category: Fine Art

Crown of the Sea General

Crown of the Sea General is a public art installation located in Kouhu Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan. The installation measures 10 meters long, 3 meters wide and 4 meters tall. A stainless steel frame and cement mortar form the shape, while glossy glazed tiles, fragmented ceramics, pebbles and mirror glass cover the surface. Benches inside the structure offer shade and rest, and white gravel around the base invites children to play. Patterns from indigenous, Han and Japanese cultures are combined. The crown encourages respect for marine resources.

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Brand: Yuji Okitsu Design Type: Installation Art Category: Fine Art

Lightflakes For StarMicronics

Lightflakes is a light installation created for the entrance of a corporate headquarters in Shizuoka, Japan. The work is built from 53,900 small lenses, each 40 mm in diameter and 0.3 mm thick, made of recyclable PET and shaped by laser cutting. The lenses are precisely assembled into two large optical screens that gather and reconstruct light. The screens are light in weight, so the surface sways gently and reveals changing brilliance. The installation responds to natural daylight entering through the glass facade and expresses the idea of miniature technology creating an infinite world.

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Brand: Yu-Liang Chen, NewLocal Art Studio Design Type: Installation Art Category: Fine Art

Earth Worker

Earth Worker is an outdoor art installation placed in a wetland in Pingtung County, Taiwan. The semi-representative human figure stands in the water like a giant that creates all living things. One side of the body looks down at the earth, while the other side looks up at the sky. Glass fiber reinforced cement is the main material, applied over a metal frame and a sculpted foam core. The brushed cement mortar surface is left plain, without added color or patches. The installation refers to local history and to the culture of the Macadao people.

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Brand: Li Chen Peng Design Type: Installation Art Category: Lighting

Glory Forever

2020 Nantou lantern festival water dancing show with the theme of Glory Forever, it was based on the shape of a famous mountain in Taiwan, Nantou county “Ninety nine Peaks”, it also shows the nature scenery on the water screen with color changeable lighting pattern. Designer Li Chen Peng builds it by the nine arcs on the water surface with a steel structure combined water dance show, to bring the water show into the virtual and real state of combining shapes.

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