Installation artists
After reading What is installation art? by Claire Bishop I researched into installation artists.
Doris Salcedo
She is a Colombian sculptor whose work explores the themes of forgetting and memory. She references victims of the Civil War in Colombia in her pieces I feel her work is like memory sculptures. In the 2003 Istanbul Biennial she placed 1550 wooden chairs between two buildings. I feel she was tying to make the audience consider death with this installation as sometimes empty chairs are used at wedding to represent people who they want at the wedding but have passed away. I consider this an installation as it gives the audience an experience and uses their senses as they can touch the chairs, feel the weight of them and the power they hold within them.
(Image source:http://inhabitat.com/doris-salcedos-installations-transform-old-furniture-into-evocative-political-statements/)
Celeste Boursier – Mougenot
He is a French artist who is also a composer and musician, these skills are played to in his installations as he wants to create everyday rhythms in unusual ways. He took 40 Zebra Finches and put an electric guitar, symbols and our instruments in there aviary and allowed them to go about there daily lives. When a bird would land on an instrument it would make a sound as they perched and feed from them to create a live soundscape. I feel this is an installation as something is happening right around you and you can move around the space. Each viewer will have a different experience in the aviary depending on where and how the birds move.
Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZQ4VmicDeM
Richard Serra
He is an American minimalist sculptor who raises the question is sculpture an installation? And when does a sculpture become an installation? He uses large-scale sheets of metal in his sculptures to reference the relationship between the human body and interior spaces and landscapes. He encourages movement and interaction in and around his pieces. I feel his sculptures are installations as in installations the viewer interaction with them is vital. He wants the audience to touch and move around the sculptures to have an experience with them and feel a connection. I think the if a sculpture can connect with an audience and they can use all there senses with it to have an experience it is an installation of not then it is just a sculpture.
(Image source: http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/33126/)
Alexa Mede
Alexa Mede is an American artist who creates real-life portraits. She paints a model, face on like a two-dimensional painting with a background so that when she photographs it they flatten together to look like a normal painting. She paints with acrylic paint the model and background in a broad-brush stroke style to appear as the normal painting technique. Once the photograph is taken the model will move so it seems as of they are coming out of the painting to reveal themselves to the audience. I feel this is an example of per formative portraits as it interacts with the audience and the model performs a role for the painting and photograph.
Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZks0BCCiw&feature=youtu.be
Yayoi Kusama
She is a Japanese artist who used vivid colours and repetitive patterns in her work. She does quite unusual things for her art, she had a dark room furnished like a lounge and covered with glow in the dark spots. Texture and pattern are really important in her work and how it’s presented this is because she has schizophrenia so she see’s these patterns and colours all the time. She likes to use everyday things and nature in her work. This creates an effect of surreal living. I feel her work is an installation because the viewer gets a full sensory experience and are critical to her pieces working.
(Image source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/yayoi-kusama)