likeafieldmouse:

Yayoi Kusama - Accumulation (1963)

“Kusama’s creations are a direct result of her precarious psychological state, an illness the artist refers to as ‘obsessional neurosis’. She began having hallucinations as a child and currently lives out of choice in a psychiatric ward in her native country. 

She has said herself of her work: ‘It arises from a deep, driving compulsion to realize in visible form the repetitive image inside me.’”

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pulmonaire: Spectrum of Time by Peter Erskine is a permanent rainbow sundial calendar installation. Hour and month lines painted on the walls and floor of the 40’ X 40’ X 40’ industrial museum space mark the hours, summer and winter solstices, and the spring and autumn equinoxes with astronomical accuracy. A 30’ X 30’ cross of solar spectrum light powered by the rotation and tilt of the earth tells the time and date. On cloudy days a laser pointer driven by a solar tracking program fills in for the rainbow.

pulmonaire:

Spectrum of Time by Peter Erskine is a permanent rainbow sundial calendar installation. Hour and month lines painted on the walls and floor of the 40’ X 40’ X 40’ industrial museum space mark the hours, summer and winter solstices, and the spring and autumn equinoxes with astronomical accuracy. A 30’ X 30’ cross of solar spectrum light powered by the rotation and tilt of the earth tells the time and date. On cloudy days a laser pointer driven by a solar tracking program fills in for the rainbow.

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free-parking:

Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project

In this installation, The Weather Project, representations of the sun and sky dominate the expanse of the Turbine Hall. A fine mist permeates the space, as if creeping in from the environment outside. Throughout the day, the mist accumulates into faint, cloud-like formations, before dissipating across the space. A glance overhead, to see where the mist might escape, reveals that the ceiling of the Turbine Hall has disappeared, replaced by a reflection of the space below. At the far end of the hall is a giant semi-circular form made up of hundreds of mono-frequency lamps. The arc repeated in the mirror overhead produces a sphere of dazzling radiance linking the real space with the reflection. Generally used in street lighting, mono-frequency lamps emit light at such a narrow frequency that colours other than yellow and black are invisible, thus transforming the visual field around the sun into a vast duotone landscape. (via)

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atrophies: Ian Cheng Bigger Than Your Blog (Ohm Y God // Clayton Deutsch) 2011

atrophies:

Ian Cheng

Bigger Than Your Blog (Ohm Y God // Clayton Deutsch)

2011

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allerleirauh:

Recycled Emotions by Khalil Chishtee

“For the first time I have used trash or recycled bags as my medium because no matter how many times I recycle plastic, it will remain plastic only, it will not change, so why do we change after being replaced?,” he says. “We change names, religion, language and even emotions. Why can’t we also remain ‘human beings’ that we essentially are?”

muteoilydiscolour:

Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms

oh my oh dear

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weareflown: tacita dean

weareflown:

tacita dean

thousands of flowers installed in an abandoned mental asylum

beautiful/source please

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gvlbvrt: Floating Presences by Luzinterruptus As part of the Rizoma Festival in Albacete, Spain, Luzinterruptus created another lighting installation that brought life to a quiet part of town. The group created 80 lit “presences” to float in the water and guard the streams. A little eerie, this army of bodies remained in harmony for one week with the resident fish, ducks, swimming children and local neighbours. beautiful.

gvlbvrt:

Floating Presences by Luzinterruptus

As part of the Rizoma Festival in Albacete, Spain, Luzinterruptus created another lighting installation that brought life to a quiet part of town. The group created 80 lit “presences” to float in the water and guard the streams. A little eerie, this army of bodies remained in harmony for one week with the resident fish, ducks, swimming children and local neighbours.

beautiful.

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cavetocanvas:

Jeff Wall, An Octopus (above) and Some Beans (below), 1990

olivia-beckett:

TATE MODERN - TACITA DEAN - GERHARD RICHTER 

jennyteacups: cavetocanvas: Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) - Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1991 From the Art Institute of Chicago: Felix Gonzalez-Torres produced work of uncompromising beauty and simplicity, transforming the everyday into profound meditations on love and loss. “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) is an allegorical representation of the artist’s partner, Ross Laycock, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1991. The installation is comprised of 175 pounds of candy, corresponding to Ross’s ideal body weight. Viewers are encouraged to take a piece of candy, and the diminishing amount parallels Ross’s weight loss and suffering prior to his death. Gonzalez-Torres stipulated that the pile should be continuously replenished, thus metaphorically granting perpetual life. tug at my heartstrings why don’t you

jennyteacups:

cavetocanvas:

Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) - Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1991

From the Art Institute of Chicago:

Felix Gonzalez-Torres produced work of uncompromising beauty and simplicity, transforming the everyday into profound meditations on love and loss. “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) is an allegorical representation of the artist’s partner, Ross Laycock, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1991. The installation is comprised of 175 pounds of candy, corresponding to Ross’s ideal body weight. Viewers are encouraged to take a piece of candy, and the diminishing amount parallels Ross’s weight loss and suffering prior to his death. Gonzalez-Torres stipulated that the pile should be continuously replenished, thus metaphorically granting perpetual life.

tug at my heartstrings why don’t you

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mitford: TriStar Horse, video projection on to water vapour (2008) by Banks Violette

mitford:

TriStar Horse, video projection on to water vapour (2008) by Banks Violette

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artlistpro: Cornelia ParkerCold Dark Matter: An Exploded View A garden shed and contents blown up 1991 via fyeahwomenartists:

artlistpro:

Cornelia Parker
Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View
A garden shed and contents blown up
1991

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vespertinal:

In the 1940s, wealthy heiress Frances Glessner Lee, obsessed with forensics, started creating doll houses with a twist: these diminutive dioramas represent various crime scenes. Photos by Corinne Botz. (VIA: http://thombeau.blogspot.com)