Art Tuesday - Temporary Installation Art

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Tuesday, Oct 26 2010 by

Installation art describes an artistic genre of site-specific, three-dimensional works designed to transform the perception of a space.

Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however the boundaries between these terms overlap. Installation art can be either temporary or permanent. Installation artworks have been constructed in exhibition spaces such as museums and galleries, as well as public- and private spaces. The genre incorporates a very broad range of everyday and natural materials, which are often chosen for their evocative qualities, as well as new media such as video, sound, performance, immersive virtual reality and the internet. Many installations are site-specific in that they are designed to exist only in the space for which they were created.

'Big Funnelman' (StreetView)
'Big Funnelman'

Pink Rabbit (Google Maps)
Pink Rabbit
'Cosmic Magnet' at Palace of Versailles (Google Maps)
'Cosmic Magnet' at Palace of Versailles

'Cosmic Magnet' (before unveiling) (Birds Eye)
'Cosmic Magnet' (before unveiling)
'The Last land' by Hans Schabus (Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale) (Birds Eye)
'The Last land' by Hans Schabus (Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale)

"Pink House" by the Latvian artists Aigars Bikše and Kristaps Gulbis and the MMIC (Birds Eye)
"Pink House" by the Latvian artists Aigars Bikše and Kristaps Gulbis and the MMIC
Big Sandal (StreetView)
Big Sandal

Big shoe (StreetView)
Big shoe
'Body Bar' by Joep Van Lieshout (Birds Eye)
'Body Bar' by Joep Van Lieshout

Cottage on Stockholm Globe Arena (StreetView)
Cottage on Stockholm Globe Arena

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