Noticing a lack of interaction between strangers who passed each other everyday on the same streets, UK-based artist Luke Jerram was inspired to disrupt people’s daily routines with spontaneous music and communication by installing colorful outdoor pianos in public spaces. The project, called Play Me, I’m Yours, has since spread throughout the world, reaching a global audience of 6 million people in 38 different cities.
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Pixelated sculpture of the artist’s own daughter holding a phone is permanently installed on Platform 1 at the Bristol Temple Meads train station.
If you’re ever walking through Changi Airport in Singapore, make sure to take in this breathtaking art installation by ART+COM. Called Kinetic Rain, it’s composed of two parts, each with 608 rain droplets made of lightweight aluminum covered with copper. Suspended from thin steel ropes, each droplet seem to magically float as they move precisely with one another, thanks to the help of hidden computer-controlled motor.
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto was recently commissioned by Paris-based art gallery Philippe Gravier to produce this beautifully innovative installation for the FIAC art fair in Paris’ Jardins des Tuileries. The project, titled Many Small Cubes, is composed of stacks of different-sized aluminum cubes balanced in a precarious formation.
Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together, a digital installation by teamLab, consists of four walls covered in projections of beautiful flowers that burst into bloom as visitors approach. This exhibit is just one of many at the Kunisaki Art Festival in Japan, which opened in early October and runs until November 30.
Luzinterruptus’s giant Labyrinth of Plastic Waste sculpture is a maze constructed out of 6,000 old bottles. Presented in Poland at the Katowice Street Art Festival, the installation illustrates an excess of plastic waste.
Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman created a giant, 82-foot-tall rabbit sculpture titled Moon Rabbit. The installation, which was created for the Taoyuan Land Art Festival, is currently laying on an old aircraft hangar in Taoyuan, Taiwan at the Dayuan Town Naval Base.
In 2010, three art students (Ali Hwang, Hae-Ryan, and Chung-Ki Park) from Klasse Löbbert in Germany transformed an ordinary-looking electrical tower into a dazzling art installation reminiscent of traditional stained glass.
Tom Burckhardt has fulfilled his childhood fantasy by constructing a realistic clubhouse entirely out of cardboard. Ordinarily a painter, he built this artist’s studio using only hot glue and black paint, and pieced together a floor, roof, and elaborate work stations. The installation has been touring art museums as an exhibit since its creation in 2005.
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