Who Needs Paint When You Have Tape? (video)

Art director and graphic designer Koji Iyama has been staging installations across Japan to promote the multifunctional uses of mt-masking tape. His latest installation arrived in Sendai, almost 2 years after it was ravaged by the devastating tsunami.

Staged within an old warehouse, and utilizing its high ceilings, Iyama hung hundreds of rolls of masking tape from the ceiling, delineating space and affecting the flow of people. He then proceeded to cover the entire floor with masking tape as well, including all objects in his way, like bicycles.

(Spoon & Tamago)

Nick Cave's Amazing Installation At Grand Central Terminal NYC

If you haven't already caught Nick Cave's incredible installation at Grand Central Terminal in New York City this week, you better hurry.

NICK CAVE: HEARD•NY

MARCH 25-MARCH 31, 2013 | EXHIBIT HOURS 9AM-8PM
VANDERBILT HALL, GRAND CENTRAL

In a groundbreaking installation and performance piece by internationally acclaimed artist Nick Cave, thirty colorful “horses” will periodically break into movement. Choreographed uniquely for Grand Central Terminal, this is Cave's first public project in New York City. Co-presented by MTA Arts for Transit and Creative Time. Image: Travis Magee.

Exhibit hours 9am-8pm. Daily performances will take place at 11am and 2pm. 

For The Sweet Tooth: "Padded Cell" Made Of Cotton Candy

New York-based artist Jennifer Rubell specializes in amazing, large-scale installation artworks that are made of food. 

In “Padded Cell”, she created a small standalone structure and padded out its interiors—the walls and ceiling—with pink candy floss. 

Visitors can enter it by a door on its side, or peek inside through a plexiglass window on the door—approximately 1,800 cones of cotton candy were used in the construction of this strange, partly edible house. 

(via Design Taxi)

Space Program: Mars by Tom Sachs (video)

If you are in NY, take a trip into space with artist Tom Sachs. "SPACE PROGRAM: MARS is a demonstration of all that is necessary for survival, scientific exploration, and colonization in extraterrestrial environs: from food delivery systems and entertainment to agriculture and human waste disposal. Sachs and his studio team of thirteen will man the installation, regularly demonstrating the myriad procedures, rituals, and tasks of their mission. The team will also "lift off" to Mars several times throughout their residency at the Armory, with real-time demonstrations playing out various narratives from take-off to landing, including planetary excursions, their first walk on the surface of Mars, collecting scientific samples, and photographing the surrounding landscape."

Here's a little preview to get you excited!

2012 Luminaire De Cagna Light Festival (Ghent, Belgium)

Colors and lights can mesmerize and inspire. I wish I could have seen this! This cathedral like sculpture is constructed entirely of wood and covered with 55,000 LED lights. 

Luminaire De Cagna is an Italian family business that has created light displays since 1930. They started with oil and carbine lights, moved on to electric and, since 2006, have used LED-lights exclusively.

 For more, check out Light Festival Ghent.

Luminous Field in Millennium Park, Chicago

If you happen to be in Chicago this week, check out the super cool, interactive, light projection installation by Luftwerk. It's the lights, sounds and people that interact with the installation that makes this so unique. Also, it commissioned by the City of Chicago! Go Chicago! For more information, check out Chicago.  The show ends February 20th.

LIGHTBOYS

Lightboys are a creative team of 2 amazing artists, Jirko Bannas and Oliver Seltmann. They create large format photographs that create new light and dimensions to walls, ceilings and indoor spaces. Using LED technology, high resolution photography and artistic and creative positioning, these 44mm think pictures can change the ambiance of a otherwise simple room. Check out some of the work here.

For more, please check out their site and gallery: LIGHTBOYS

HOLD ON! It's A Walkable Roller Coaster...

This is an incredible sculpture designed by Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth in Duisburg, Germany. Named, "Tiger and Turtle - Magic Mountain", the sculpture is made of metal stairs that loop and intertwine. It looks like a good workout! I wonder how you walk the loop? Defy gravity? Really cool nonetheless! 

And at night, it is illuminated with LED lights along the path of the stairs.

 

Amazing!