Water art

Ayşe Erkmen - On Water, 2017, ocean cargo containers, steel beams, steel grates, 6400 x 640 cm walkway, installation view, Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, Münster, Germany feat

Ayşe Erkmen makes you walk on water

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

Erkmen’s On Water debuted at the 2017 international open-air exhibition, Sculpture Projects, in Münster, Germany. It became an instant hit with visitors who used her bridge to cross the canal. On Water was a temporary footbridge installation that was laid underwater in an abandoned basin on the Dortmund-Ems canal. Such was the scale of …

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Olafur Eliasson’s Ice Watch was slowly disappearing

Environmental Art, Installations / 5 minutes of reading

You probably know Olafur Eliasson, the Danish-Icelandic artist. Some of his exceptional artworks focus on climate and environmental changes. In 2003, he installed The Weather Project, which remains one of Tate Modern’s popular installations. He is also known for his freestanding waterfall in Versailles, his installation in which he installed a riverbed in a …

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Le Corbusier’s most famous house drowned

Architecture, Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

Globally, flooding seems to be growing more intense each year. At any given moment, you will always come across people who are forced to relocate because of flooding. That’s just the way modern life is. According to scientists, humans have invaded the paths that water has always flown along. As this happens, coupled with …

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Junya Ishigami’s Art Biotop Water Garden – Is this architecture?

Architecture, Installations, Japanese architecture / 5 minutes of reading

Who is Junya Ishigami? Junya Ishigami is a Japanese architect. He was born in Kanagawa prefecture in 1974. In 2000, he obtained a master’s degree in architecture and planning at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He had a short stint working at Kazuyo Sejima between 2000 and 2004 at SANAA. Accomplishments Right …

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What makes Hans Haacke’s Condensation Cube timeless?

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

Who is Hans Haacke? Hans Haacke was born in Germany in 1936. He grew up fascinated by biology and the process that life takes in adapting to different situations. It is this influence that largely factored into his masterpiece, the Condensation Cube that he conceived between 1963 and 1965. This remarkable piece has toured many …

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Bill Viola’s The Crossing – Everything you need to know

Installations, Video Art / 4 minutes of reading

Background Underlying Bill Viola’s work over the past few decades has been the use of advanced media technologies for purposes of explaining and highlighting spiritual phenomena. As a result of his immersive audio and video installments and environments, the artist manages to externalize the internal realm of the unconscious, supplying audiences with plenty of space …

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Why did Olafur Eliasson turn these rivers green?

Installations / 5 minutes of reading

Next March, just like any other month of March, the Chicago Plumbers will dye the city’s river green. They have been doing this since 1962, in loving memory of St. Patrick, celebrating an icon in the history of Ireland and Chicago. Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson mounted another similar project, but with a whole different …

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Bill Viola’s The raft – An image of destruction & survival

Performances, Video Art / 3 minutes of reading

What comes to mind at the mention of a raft? Naturally, many people would imagine a large water body. Using a raft to cross over water means desperation and determination to reach the other side. When Bill Viola incorporated this aspect of human struggle into his artwork, people were impressed by the story he …

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Why did Francis Alÿs push a block of ice for 9 hours?

Performances / 3 minutes of reading

What is Francis Alÿs known for? Francis Alÿs is known for using poetic and metaphorical techniques to highlight the political and social realities of his city. Often, the issues he addresses range from national border politics to globalism and areas of conflict in his community and the effects of modernism. As one of the most …

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Anish Kapoor’s whirlpool – Everything you need to know

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

What is Anish Kapoor’s Descension? This installation by Anish Kapoor is a depiction of the fluidity and motion of water as a liquid mass and the void into which it descends. Descension is an impressive sculpture that depicts water’s continuous swirling motion as it rushes down an 8m (26-ft) diameter vortex representing a powerful physical …

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Steve McCurry’s monsoon photos from India & beyond – Devastatingly real

Photography / 7 minutes of reading

About Steve McCurry Steve McCurry is no stranger to success, having built a name for himself as one of the world’s most respected photographers. He has won numerous international awards and acclaim for his consistent and impactful repertoire and has sold books in the millions across the world. In particular, some of his most talked-about …

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Jaume Plensa’s giant Crown Fountain sculpture in Chicago spits out water

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Within Chicago’s Millennium Park stands an interactive piece of art that the public never seems to have enough of. Designed by Jaume Plensa, a Catalan artist, the fountain is an illustration of how creativity and technology can mingle to form an enchanting piece of work. Crown Fountain The work, which was unveiled in July …

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Why did the Danish artists Superflex flood McDonald’s?

Performances / 2 minutes of reading

In this short film, a life-size replica of a McDonald’s burger bar gets flooded with water gradually. There are images of furniture being washed away in the water, food floating around the room, and electric appliances short-circuit to a halt before space can no longer be seen below the water. While the production lacks …

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Pedro Marzorati - Where the Tides Ebb and Flow feat

Pedro Marzorati’s striking installation comments on climate change

Installations, Sculptures, Statues / 2 minutes of reading

As you walk through Paris and especially in the Montsouris Park, one cannot help but notice the blue busts that appear to be rising from under the surface of the water. This artwork is known as Where the Tides Ebb and Flow created by Pedro Marzorati, an Argentinian artist. What is the meaning of …

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Olafur Eliasson’s freestanding waterfall in Versailles

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Preparation for Waterfall In his 2016 work on the Versailles waterfall, Olafur Eliasson made displacements and destabilization which have changed the perceptions people had about the famous landmark. Before he began his work, he approached the Chateau and gardens of Versailles to experiment whether the project was implementable. His work didn’t involve installing objects but …

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Sakarin Krue-On – Terraced Rice Fields, rice field, ca. 7000 sqm, Schloss Wilhelmshoehe, Kassel, Germany, documenta12, 2007 feat

Thai artist Sakarin Krue-On failed miserably, or did he not?

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

In 2007, Thai artist Sakarin Krue-On attempted to transform the park in front of a castle in Kassel, Germany, into a 7.000sqm terraced rice field. For this project, Krue-On and his Thai team tried to dispense the use of machines as much as possible while relying on traditional methods, using simple devices such as …

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Gideon Mendel’s powerful photos taken after floods – The world under water

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

What is Drowning World all about? For a couple of years now, photographer Gideon Mendel has taken it upon himself to show the world what it is like in other parts of the world where the climate is very unfavorable to them. Mendel has not minded the dangers and lengths he has to go through …

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Why did Zhang Kechun travel along the Yellow River?

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

About the Yangtze, China’s Yellow River The Yangtze River, Asia’s longest river, is the main subject of The Yellow River, a series of phot...

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s fascinating & tranquil Seascapes

Photography / 4 minutes of reading

About Hiroshi Sugimoto Hiroshi Sugimoto is a photographer who was born in Japan in 1948 and now divides his time between Tokyo and New York City. Both cities influence the works of Sugimoto, who began dabbling in photography in high school. Still, he was retrained as an artist in California in 1974, where he received …

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Lida Abdul’s What we have overlooked – This man vanishes in a lake

Performances, Video Art / 5 minutes of reading

Who is Lida Abdul? Lida Abdul’s two-channel work entitled What we have overlooked (2011) was first presented at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel. She is an Afghan video and performance artist born in 1973 in Kabul. Forced to flee Afghanistan following the Russian invasion and the war that followed, Abdul lived as a refugee in Germany and …

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Gelitin installed a pool on top of London museum

Architecture, Installations / 4 minutes of reading

In 2001 Austrian art collective Gelitin made a bold move on the 91st floor of the WTC in New York. The group of four removed a window and eventually pushed a wooden balcony through the hole. At the end of it, they stood on it while photos of this incident were taken from a …

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