On Italy's Lake Iseo, everything is ready to bring to life the project created by the Bulgarian artist Christo and baptized as the Floating Pier. It is a 4.5 kilometer long installation that connects the town of Sulzano and the island of Monte Isola. It will be open to the public from June 18 to July 3, 2016.
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"Today we live with the awareness that an art object can be anything and an artist can be anyone," said academic sculptor Marjan Drev. Like him, we also disagree with this, although today there are no more boundaries, because if art can be a snow shovel and a urinal, art can be anything! The latest such example is a scene from the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, where teenagers secretly placed glasses on the floor, and visitors mistook them for an art installation and reacted as expected. No, they didn't get angry, but rather tried to immerse themselves in this "artistic" work, and some of them even enthusiastically photographed the "work".
COS, the fashion brand that lives under the same roof as H&M (except in a penthouse), joined forces with Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto to present a new collection at the Milan fashion show. COS x Sou Fujimoto is a combination that did not disappoint.
Spherical photography is a special type of photography. These are 360-degree panoramic images that are digitally compiled using software. Well, the Spanish architect and artist who lives and creates in New York, Isidro Blasco, made his life a little more complicated with the Planets project in order to explore another or the third dimension of panoramic photography. He set about the physical assembly and the extremely interesting installations of the Planets series were created.
Have you ever wanted to see the moon and stars here, among us, on Earth? Now is your chance. Moonlith is a new monument in Ljubljana that reflects the sky. On its surface, the moon's moon and constellations of stars are displayed, while at the same time the Moonlith responds to the people around it with subtle sounds.
Border Mover is a Slovenian pneumatic video installation that crosses the border between physical and digital. Behind the project stands an accomplished artistic tandem consisting of academic painter Nika Oblak and academic painter Primož Novak. They presented their project, quite different from most, on Kickstarter, where they collect funds for further development.
Artist and designer Florent Albinet has set up an interesting installation in the middle of the La Juine lazy river in the Domaine de Chamarande in the French city of Essonne, a mini-tower with a lifting mechanism, the top of which can be reached by pedaling. Offering a new perspective on the picturesque surroundings, Gabie's 6-meter winch tower will be open to the public until November 1, 2015.
A group of architecture students at the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts installed three extra-large wooden Ruup megaphones in a small clearing in the middle of a forest in Võru County, Estonia. Fusing modern architecture with wilderness, the acoustic installation is a place of meditation, relaxation and performance, amplifying the sounds of nature such as birdsong and rustling leaves.
Barbies are no longer just a toy. As the core of many debates about the manipulation of modern images of female ideals of beauty, this time they found their way into modern art. The Belgian artist Annette Thas created an incredible giant sculpture of a wave consisting of more than 3,000 barbies.
The dream of floating effortlessly high in the sky has finally become a sweet reality. Namely, the artist Tomás Saraceno created the installation "In Orbit", which makes it possible to walk in the air as high as 25 meters.
Grace Cathedral in San Francisco is celebrating 100 years of music in a very special way. The artist Anne Patterson came to visit and breathed a new story into the cathedral for a few months.
Valérie Wolf Gang's video installation shows the human species as the central creature in reversed roles. Like in a real zoo.