BEAUTY: Installation--Simon Beck

Much like Sonja Hinrichsen (previously here), British artist Simon Beck uses his snow shoes to create stunningly complicated works of snow art. In the winter, he creates his installations--which can take a matter of hours or a matter of days--at Les Arcs ski resort in France.

https://www.facebook.com/snowart8848

BEAUTY: Installation--Sonja Henrichsen

Sonja Hinrichsen straps on snow shoes and tromps around fields of freshly fallen snow to create site specific art installations of magical, quilted spiral designs that look like stitching on white rice paper.

http://www.krop.com/terryfan/

Fast Track

For this year's Archstoyanie Festival (an arts festival) in Nikola-Lenivets, Russia, Salto Architects designed an inviting 170 foot long trampoline! It just begs to be run and bounced on.

From the Archstoyanie website:
“Fast Track” is an integral part of park infrastructure, it is a road and an installation at the same time. It challenges the concept of infrastructure that only focuses on technical and functional aspects and tends to be ignorant to its surroundings. "Fast Track" is an attempt to create intelligent infrastructure that is emotional and corresponds to the local context. It gives the user a different experience of moving and perceiving the environment.

It looks like there were some performance art pieces that incorporated the trampoline!

http://arch.stoyanie.ru/en/news
http://www.salto.ee/

BEAUTY: Installation--luzinterruptus

I have posted about the light installation work of the Spanish art collective luzinterruptus before, here and here, but here is their most recent site specific installation, entitled Literature vs. Traffic, at the Light In Winter festival in Melbourne a few months ago. Over ten thousand books were lit from behind their pages and scattered like a river through a public space and into a lane of traffic on a busy street.

http://www.luzinterruptus.com/

BEAUTY: Installation--Ryoji Ikeda

Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda works primarily with light. Part of his Spectra series employs an array of extremely powerful Xenon searchlights aimed straight up into the sky. This installation has been adapted for many different cities around the globe...

The result is visually compelling, and evokes a beam going out into space, a beacon, a transmittal. Searchlights are traditionally used to draw attention to special events and these pieces evoke that as well. And of course, those of us living in the United States have seen the two searchlights aimed straight up where the World Trade Center buildings used to be, the light occupying the loss, serving as an ethereal memorial.

Above: Spectra (Nagoya)

Above: Spectra (Paris)

Above: Spectra (Buenos Aires)

Above: Spectra (Barcelona)

http://www.ryojiikeda.com/