British light artist Bruce Munro has announced his second-ever U.S. show. He will return to exhibit “Light,” a collection of 10 large-scale outdoor lighting installations coupled with indoor sculptures at the Cheekwood Botanical Garden in Nashville, Tennessee.
Inge Vanluyd and Stefan Vanbergen of the creative agency Mooz, have designed a Christmas tree made out of porcelain plates and cups.
You can visit the tree in the main square of Hasselt, Belgium, until January 6th, 2013.
Ceramic sculptures by the Japanese artist Harumi Nakashima are currently on show at Galerie NeC in Hong Kong.
Stone Gate is a piece of work designed by Raffaello Galiotto and presented by Lithos Design for the first time at the 100% Gravity exhibition in Verona, Italy, for which designers and manufacturers were asked to experiment on the field of natural stone gravity: the circle is amazingly made of dry-laid hewn stones, each one weighing 5 quintals, bound together in a self-supporting structure only through compression.
Rojkind Arquitectos have designed the “Portal of Awareness” installation in Mexico City. The designers were commissioned by the coffee brand Nescafé to use 1,500 coffee mugs to create
the public installation.
As part of the London Design Festival, CONTEMPORIST visited the Tent London design event, where British artist Toby Poolman exhibited a piece with the title “Ceci n’est pas une table.”
Artist Bill Pechet has collaborated with lighting co-designer Chris Pekar of Lightworks and Lumenpulse to create the 35-foot-tall, 31-foot-wide “Emptyful” sculpture in the Millennium Library Plaza in Winnipeg, Canada.
British architect Ian McChesney has recently completed a new artwork for the University of Plymouth entitled Arrival and Departure.
British artist Luke Jerram has completed this 17 foot tall solar powered kinetic chandelier consisting of 665 glass radiometers, which shimmer and flicker as they turn in the sunlight. Altering their speed with the subtle changes in lighting conditions, the vanes of each radiometer speed up and slow down throughout the day. Commissioned by the Bristol and Bath Science Park the artwork is on permanent display there.
You can see a video of the chandelier in action on YouTube – here.
As part of the London Design Festival, CONTEMPORIST visited the Tent London design event, where British artist Toby Poolman exhibited some wall art and a coffee table he made from various metal parts of an old tractor.
CONTEMPORIST is in London for the 2012 London Design Festival, and we have visited Exhibition Road where British artist Tony Cragg has some large sculptures on display.
FreelandBuck are currently exhibiting their Slipstream installation at the Bridge Gallery in New York.
British artist Ryan Gander is currently exhibiting his sculpture titled “Really Shiny Things That Don’t Mean Anything” at the Lisson Gallery in London.
“Hang On A Minute Lads, I’ve Got A Great Idea…” is an art installation on the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion by British artist Richard Wilson.
Based upon the iconic final scene of the film The Italian Job, this feat of engineering sees a full-sized replica coach bus balanced on the De La Warr Pavilion’s rooftop.
