Dug Claxton, Toronto, Canada/crew of Smoke and Mirrors installation, five-time burner If I can generalize, black people do not gravitate towards things that make them uncomfortable.
Dug Claxton, Toronto, Canada/Crew, Smoke and Mirrors installation, five-time burner Every time I step into the United States, I am dumbfounded by the death rates of black people in their interactions with law enforcement.
In the space-distorting, hall-of-mirrors installation by Nathan Crowley, the comparative pairings seen earlier break down.
And his "Broken Mirror" installation, employing a high-speed camera and complex electronics, presents a series of looking glasses shattered by flying bullets at regular intervals and miraculously recomposing themselves over and over again.
Passers-by paused to look at themselves against the backdrop of the empty sea in Rachel Valdés Camejo's mirror installation, "Happily Ever After No. 1," and to puzzle before "Nobody Listens," by Alexandre Arrechea, a sculptural aluminum tree of ears that get smaller and smaller as they approach the top.
Video aficionados could enjoy Ilya Selitsky's Present Indefinite at Anna Nova and Zane Balode's schizophrenic Mirror installation at Novy Muzei, where what appeared to be mundane Japanese landscapes heaved into flashing fluorescence when the lights came down to a pulsating techno beat.
For this year's Coachella, the installation artist updated the project iwth "Refleciton Field," a two-story-tall mirror installation that reflected the festival, desert, and surroundings giving the impression that it was twice as long.
Immediately after assembling it in the courtyard of 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, which housed Liz West's rainbow mirror installation Our Colour Reflection, the artist lit his painstakingly crafted sculpture on fire.
This week, The Creators Project brought you inside artist Lee Bul's infinity mirror installation, detailed some hauntingly beautiful portraits, and shared concept designs for city that floats in the middle of the ocean.
I love design, especially glasswork by Laura Diaz de Santillana, and the mirror installations made by her brother Alessandro.
Domestic-size mirrored installations start at $40,000, said Tanya Bonakdar, the artist's representative in Manhattan.
