This is a sculpture by Johannes Vanderbeek (images taken from Zack Fueuer Gallery). This tree’s leaves are made out of metal and wax. Looks very natural from far away but leaves are shiny and have small portions of unnatural blue pigment when looked at closely.
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A primal desire of man is the imaginative impulse…to visit strange regions in search of beauty, awe or terror as the actual world does not supply. – C.S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds. Fairy Tale within Fiber installation Art, Sustainability, Design and Nature
Monday, 7 November 2011
Friday, 21 October 2011
Magic in Nature installation
Gerda
Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger create interactive
wonderlands that reference nature. The respond to the environments fragile state and encourage discovery of a paradise lost in the discarded.
They collaborate together to create 'falling gardens, glistening ponds of motor oil and flowing streams of chemical' to form a story of life and death, hope and despair.
Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger have collaborated since 1997 and are known as being among the most
successful of contemporary Swiss artists, bring together made and found objects
to create magical fantasy installations which question the small and wonderful in the context bigger environmental concerns.
Petah Coyne Creating An Environment
Contemporary installation artist Petah Coyne unfamiliar yet enticing environments which evoke very personal responses. Her work is both figurative and abstract in form, using diverse materials such as mud, feathers, black sand, dead fish and
car parts
She transforms spaces into intense physical environments, working within different contexts which shape the characteristics and metaphor of the final sculptures.
Petahs show ''Fairy Tales,'' consists of layered tableaux which are meant to be dreamy and mystical, evoking
spirituality and afterlife.
Fiber artist creating fairy tale installions
Emily Natchinson is a sculptural fibre artist who transforms
spaces into other worldly installions. Her work involves materials such as
wool, horn, papier-mâché, and feathers. She focuses on mythology and landscape,
exploring how nature affects these stories. Through scale she pushes her work
from illustrative into reality, creating unnerving atmospheres with sculptures
mimicking geological growth beneath imposing tangled webs of fibre. She
investigates the cultural creation of landscape. Emily Natchinsons work motivates
my own practice in many ways, I want to explore the juxtaposition of nature the
artificial and reality using fairy tale as my focus to creating 3d
installations which Emily Nachinson also explores, which question our
relationship to nature and reality.
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