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- I’m here to talk about why installation art is fascinating, and talk some works of others and mine. So one day, I went to an art show near here, in downtown San Diego, featuring Tara Donovan’s work. And when I entered the space, I cried.
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- because There at the top of the admission room were thousands of Styrofoam cups. I was mesmerized, because this accumulation of these cups molded a creation of this enchanting, yet weird hybrid between bee hives and clouds.
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- Whatever it was, this entity glowed and had a biomorphic quality to it. I then went to the next room, and I saw this haze blanketing the wall. When I walked closer and scrutinized the work, I realized the haze was actually compiled of clear straws,
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- each straw exquisitely cut and placed. The mere accumulation and scale of the work grabbed me and took me to some other place entirely. I have witnessed an incredible experience in how the form of nature grows,
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- Using everyday, domestic material, such as straws and Styrofoam cups.Its beauty gave me a respite from daily drudgery. This is what installation art serves to do.
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- This genre of art gives an overwhelming change in perception, often enveloping you. Installation art is site specific, in which the art cannot exist without the particular space that it’s featured in.
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- Installation art forces you to interact the whole environment as oppose to a flat canvas. Not only is the scale important, but space is crucial as well. Each space has a unique history.
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- For example, this art piece uses the space’s history as the driving force in the artist’s reasoning for using ice. When Anya Gallacio walked into the space, she wanted to counter the space’s history.
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- The room had used steam to produce electricity, so she took this history and did something opposite to it. she trudged and placed hundreds of ice blocks into the room, compiling them into a discrete cube.
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the piece explores the decadence, fragility and preservation of ice. At the same time, she also put salt in the middle of the cubes to speed up the melting process, and thus bringing an ephemeral quality to the work.
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- Not only is the history of space important, but material usage is fundamental as well. Each material gives a different experience. The idea that materials themselves give rise to the concept of the piece was founded 90 years ago by Marcel Duchamp.
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- Marcel Duchamp put random objects, like a urinal and bicycle wheel, into a gallery and claimed them as art. By doing so, Duchamp gave the idea that anything can be art as long as the material is legitimized through a gallery space or through any other formal presentation.
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- Then slowly artists start to extend the sculpture across the space. A defining work of site-specific installation art is 20:50 by Richard Wilson. As you walk in, you see the room turned upside down.
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- The gallery is actually filled to waist height with recycled engine oil, from which the piece takes its name. A walkway leads from a single entrance, leading you into the space until you are surrounded by oil on all sides.
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- Wilson give illusions of walking in space and walking through a flood. Visitors described it as beautiful for its highly reflective quality, yet the piece explores a tension with the beauty and the dealing with hazardous material.
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