From those made with neon to those that target the monuments of cities, those against climate change to those that play with nature. This year the installations have invaded the museums, streets and public spaces, let’s review the best ones!
Contact, the installation that brings the sea into a room
The Japanese collective 目【mé】, composed by Haruka Kojin, director Kenji Minamigawa and production director Hirofumi Masui, managed to lock a piece of sea in a room at the Mori Art Museum.
It seems that with its ripples, the wave hurls against the walls and returns to the viewer.
Christo’s wrapped Arc de Triomphe, coming in 2020
A few months ago Christo, the famous duo composed of Christo Javachev and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, unveiled their next work in Paris in September 2020. The artists will pack no less than the Arc de Triomphe. We are looking forward to it!
Megaliths in the Bath House Ruins, the teamLab installation
In our personal shortlist could not miss an installation signed by teamLab. The work in question is titled Megaliths in the Bath House Ruins and involves huge blocks similar to megaliths coming out of the floor and occupying almost all the space of an abandoned place. The particularity is that on each megalith are projected entire life cycles of the flowers, from when they bloom to when they lose their petals and die.
Edoardo Tresoldi presents Gharfa
Now let’s move on to one of the Italian artists we admire in particular. This year Edoardo Tresoldi presented Studio Studio Studio, a new interdisciplinary reality. The first work born from this context was Gharfa, realized thanks to the collaboration with Alberonero, Max Magaldi and Matteo Foschi. It is an experiential pavilion, an installation to visit and to discover right to its heart.
Alex Chinneck and his zips arrive in Milan
Among the installations that animated Milan during Design Week, the one that caused the most sensation was that of Alex Chinneck, who brought his famous giant hinges with which he stripped the facades of the buildings to the Milanese city.
Teetertotter Wall, the US-Mexico border demolished by pink swings
The Teetertotter Wall is one of those installations we like to talk about because it shows how through art we can unite cultures and tear down walls. The work is a swing that comes out half in Mexico and half in the United States and that manages to unite two countries and two cultures.
FOREST – The Unending Attraction of Nature, the installation that transforms a stadium into a forest
Starting from the idea that very soon various species of plants and trees will become something rare to see and that probably the only way to enjoy their beauty will be to enclose them all in special parks, the artist Klaus Littman, with the help of the architect Enzo Enea, has designed and realized FOREST – The Unending Attraction of Nature, an installation inside the Wörthersee Stadium in Klagenfurt, Austria, which celebrates nature in all its splendor.
London, the sinking house in the Thames
In London, last October, a typical English miniature house appeared in the middle of the Thames, floating near Tower Bridge.
This represents an activation proposed by Extinction Rebellion against climate change and attention to rising sea levels.
Museum of the Moon, Luke Jerram’s installation, is arriving in Milan
It takes the name of Museum of the Moon, the installation designed and built by Luke Jerram which consists of a 1:500.00 scale reproduction of the Moon. This year we talked about it because it also arrived in Milan, lighting the Cozzi pool for two weeks.
Robert Montgomery, short poems made of neon
We end with Robert Montgomery, one of those artists who uses the power of the word to produce conceptual art, writing short poems on huge posters made of neon writing. Through his artistic-conceptual practice, the artist develops his work on various levels: that of the message, that of language and that of harmony with the surrounding context.
