Tag: Installation Art

Vibrant Gradients of Suspended Yarn Reflect HOTTEA’S Personal Memories








Eric Rieger, known by the moniker HOTTEA (previously), is a graffiti writer turned installation artist whose medium of choice is yarn. With it, he creates colorful large-scale works inspired by the moments, experiences, and people in his life. Whether flowing down from the ceiling of a gallery, or interlaced across the top of a pedestrian pathway, Rieger’s installations always hold a connection to his past and those who helped shape it.

“Color to me represents memories and experiences,” Rieger told Colossal, “so in a way it is always in play. It all depends on what really strikes me at the moment of the installation.” When asked about his process, the artist revealed that it’s largely inspiration and concept that dictates form. “I have always let life unravel itself naturally and that informs my artistic practice. I let the space and my thoughts guide me, and from there I create a design based on what I am going through at the time.”

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selgascano’s structure — photographed by iwan baan

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floating on the canal, selgascano’s structure — photographed here by iwan baan — forms an organically-shaped habitat with hot pink and orange semi-translucent walls. the color of the pavilion’s façade generates filtered views of the surrounding water, and offers a sunny and serene spot to stop and rest. the structure’s sinuous silhouette snakes across the water and sits on a floating platform that offers an ideal place for adults and children to wade in or venture a splash in the canals.

the project embodies one of the main objectives of the bruges triennial 2018: generating encounters, and challenging the public to not only view artwork, but also to experience it and become part of the creative process.

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‘au-delà des limites’ — 2,000 square meter exhibition by Teamlab

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teamlab is bringing an immersive, 2,000 square meter exhibition to paris, forming a vast space that allows visitors to experience the world through their own bodies. from may 4 to september 2, 2018 at la villette, ‘au-delà des limites’ explores the role of digital technology in the blurring of physical and conceptual boundaries that exist between art. while each of the installations on view maintain a sense of autonomy, they simultaneously break free from their frame and enter the realm of another, influencing and sometimes intermingling with other artworks.

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Interloop by Chris Fox

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artist chris fox has created a mind warping public sculpture in sydney, australia’s heritage-listed underground railway station wynard. interloop is fox’s answer to repurposing the old wooden stairs after being replaced by metal ones, part of a major plan directed by local redevelopers who commissioned the artist to help transform the city’s financial district.

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Carl Andre & Enrico Castellani

16 Nov 2017–13 Jan 2018 at the Gallery Greta Meert in Brussels, Belgium






This exhibition shows one monumental work by Carl Andre: Thebes. Made out of Western red cedar wood in 2003, the work measures 120 x 90 x 1080 cm and exists out of 48 timbers, one row of 12 vertical timbers mounting one traverse horizontal tee timber each, flanked at base by two parallel rows of 12 horizontal timbers all based on the floor. The artist uses the pieces of wood in the form of modules with standardised dimensions. As with all his sculptures the elements are connected to the ground in three ways: stacked, spread flat either on a grid or contiguously. By ways of stacking the work demands a physical involvement of the viewer, walking past the work gives you a sense of its mass, length, volume and even the smell of the cedar wood.Carl Andre was one of the founders of the art movement known as Minimal Art.

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Forms by Tony Smith at Matthew Marks Gallery NYC

one of the strongest minimalist sculptors. if you get the opportunity to see his retrospective — don’t miss it! m.





Tony Smith’s exhibition Forms through Matthew Marks Gallery is a testament to his life’s work. The series of space-enveloping forms are striking, bold and minimal. Tony’s iconic, geometric metal forms actual emerged in tandem with the burgeoning minimalist scene, and this exhibition is a nod to this dedication.

Responsible for more than fifty large-scale sculptures in the final two decades of this life, his work as a contemporary of American art still stands relevant and as beautiful as ever. His works, in particular, the curation of Forms, highlights how art can have a transformative ability; that through art and sculpture, spaces and architectures can be created and changed. Smith’s work is described as contributing to the idea of reductionism that lies at the heart of minimalism. And that contribution is to be celebrated.

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