Installation art

Rachel Whiteread, Embankment at Tate Modern, London

Installation art is a style of visual art that uses three-dimensional objects. These artworks are usually meant to change the perception of a space (the way a space is seen). Installation artworks can be permanent or temporary and are shown in museums, galleries or in public spaces.

Some of the earliest installation artworks were Marcel Duchamp's readymade objects. However, the real development started in the 1970s. Today, with the improvement of technology, artists use and mix new medias and may involve sensors too in order to make the visitors interact with the installations.

Gallery

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain 1917. Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz Neorizon by Maurice Benayoun, urban interactive art installation (eArts Festival Shanghai 2008) Irrationnal Geometrics by Pascal Dombis, 2008 La Signorina Felicita 2013 - installation created in Agliè (Torino, Italy) as a homage to Guido Gozzano's poem La signorina Felicita ovvero la Felicità Installation "Only for Your Eyes" by Lidia Chiarelli, on show at "Promotrice delle Belle Arti", Torino "The Pathway of Poems for Peace" is the landscape installation created for the World Peace Day 2015, Agliè Italy Gian Carlo Riccardi, La stanza delle meraviglie, 1989, Arpino, Italy.

Installation Art Media

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  An installation art of Mad crab created with waste plastics and similar non-biodegradable wastes at Fort Kochi.

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  Visitors interact with a couple in bed, inside one of the many environments of La Menesunda (1965), one of the earliest large-scale installations in art history.

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  Allan McCollum.The Shapes Project, 2005/06

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  Guardians of Time, Manfred Kielnhofer, Festival of Lights (Berlin) French Cathedral, Berlin, Velotaxi 2011

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  Marc Lee 10.000 Moving Cities, 2010-ongoing, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul

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  An urban interactive art installation by Maurizio Bolognini (Genoa, 2005), which everybody can modify by using a cell phone.

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  Paul Kuniholm Installation Art, for Storefronts, a Shunpike program

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  'Sucker'wfp21' aircraft sculptural installation by Bangladeshi artist Firoz Mahmud at Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan

Bibliography

• Bishop, Claire. Installation Art a Critical History. London: Tate, 2005.
• Coulter-Smith, Graham. Deconstructing Installation Art. Online resource
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• Reiss, Julie H. From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN 0-262-68134-X
• Rosenthal, Mark. Understanding Installation Art: From Duchamp to Holzer. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-7913-2984-7
• Suderburg, Erika. Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art. Minneapolis London: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8166-3159-X
• Ferriani, Barbara. Ephemeral Monuments: History and Conservation of Installation Art. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2013. ISBN 978-1-60606-134-3