7 public art installations worth seeing in the summer
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WORK #2620, UNDERSTANDING, Martin Creed. Photo by Jason Wich and courtesy of Public Art Fund.
Trying to fit in for another adventure this summer? What's better than a cross-country trip to see some of this year's best art installations? From New York to California and several places in between, we've put together some of the most intriguing interactive art exhibits. Spoiler: Giant rabbits are involved in the game.
So pack your bags, open the map and head to the hottest summer outdoor art exhibitions.
New York
Martin Creed captured our hearts with his worldwide neon installation."Now he's taking it to the next level with his largest public sculpture to date, a 25-foot-tall rotating neon sign with "UNDERSTAND" steel letters. A well-known British artist opened WORK No. 2620, UNDERSTANDING at the pier in Brooklyn Bridge Park in May. The rotating neon sign is a project of the Public Art Foundation and randomly rotates at different speeds according to a computer program installed by Creed. As with most of his work, this everyday word can be interpreted as a call to understanding, celebration, or urgency.
From May 4 to October 23, 2016 at Pier 6 of Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Ekaterina Grosse:
Upon learning that the abandoned watersports center at Fort Tilden in Rockaway would be demolished after Hurricane Sandy, MoMA PS.1 director Klaus Biesenbach had other plans for the building. A few years earlier, Biesenbach had seen the building that the German artist Katharina Grosse had painted in bright colors after Hurricane Katrina. He invited the artist to make a temporary installation of neglected buildings on the peninsula.
Deeming it structurally unsound and with plans to demolish the buildings, Gross spray-painted the buildings in surreal waves of sunset hues to mimic the coastal skyline. Rockaway! Produced in association with the Rockaway Artists Alliance, Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, National Park Service, Central Park Conservancy, NYC Parks & Recreation and Rockaway Beach Surf Club.
July 3-November. 30 2016 Gateway National Recreation Area in Fort Tilden, New York
"Invasion" by Amanda Parer at the Lumina Festival in Cascais. A photo ,
Las Vegas, NV
Amanda Parer:
Amanda Parer's inflatable bunnies fly all over the world to various festivals all year round. You can see these 20-foot-tall bright white bunnies in Las Vegas this fall when they make a brief appearance in the US between Portugal and France in late September.
While animals have some pretty adorable whims, Australian artist Parer created them to draw attention to the environmental destruction they are bringing to her home country. Rabbits are an uncontrollable pest in Australia and, according to the artist, bring a big imbalance to the local species. Now, in a rather funny way, she takes these rabbits around the world so that they "invade" other lands.
September 23-25 2016
Des Moines, Iowa
Olafur Eliasson:
Des Moines is a happy home with an impressive permanent art collection. Installed in 2013, Olafur Eliasson's Panoramic Awareness Pavilion consists of 23 colored glass panels that interact with a light source in the center of the pavilion, illuminating the surrounding park in a kaleidoscope of colors.
Eliasson sees the pavilion as the ROYGBIV rainbow spectrum from the outside as an "orientation device" in which you see the world through the blue, orange or yellow side. Speaking from experience, it's also quite fun to gather inside and of course take some photos.
The Path of Silence, Jeppe Hein. a photo ,
Бостон
Jeppe Hein:
Known for his inventive, witty yet minimalist sculptures, Jeppe Hein is installing one of his mirror labyrinths in Boston this August. Vertical mirrors will be installed to mimic drumlin hills as part of Trustees, Massachusetts' largest conservation project.
As part of a two-year public arts initiative, The Trustees are launching their Art and Landscape program with Jeppe Hein's New End. The site-specific work has been used in various iterations around the world, and Bostonians can look forward to seeing the sculpture in a new light as it experiences the seasons over the next year.
September 18, 2016 - October 22, 2017
San Jose, California
: Feeling and Feeling Water
Best known for his pioneering work with light and public space, Dan Corson's latest work is an interactive tunnel made from thousands of drawn circles and glowing rings installed under a highway underpass in San Jose, California. The rings are programmed to play various patterns, but are activated when cars, bicycles or people pass under the bridge.
Originally trained in theater, Corson designs spaces that are a hybrid of designed spaces, art, architecture, and, in his words, "sometimes even magic."
Look at the Heidleberg project before it falls apart at the end of this year. Photo courtesy of Kathy Carey.
Detroit, Michigan
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Perhaps the most iconic public art installation in Detroit is the Heidleberg Project. that it will be dismantled in the coming years. Over the past 30 years, Tyree Guyton has drawn attention to the decline of Detroit's East Side. What started with cleaning up a few vacant lots has led to Guyton turning two city blocks into polka dots, stuffed animals, shoes, vacuum cleaners and other colorful discarded items, turning abandoned houses into giant sculptures.
The artist will now film the project piecemeal as it transitions into an "art-infused community."
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