umbrella installations

Image courtesy of spainguides.com

I have seen the above photo, from a street in Alicante, Spain, in a few places. It always causes me to stop, examine and appreciate it. There is something magical about it, even though I am aware it is multi-colored umbrellas strung across the street, it seems dream-like.


It turns out, there are quite a few art ventures using umbrellas that have popped up globally. Crookedbrains and environmentalgraffitti put together some umbrella art installation round- ups and I pulled some of the images for you to check out- whether indoors or outside, there is something cool and magical about all of them....

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a favorite: Annette Messager's sweatered birds

image via VVORK


The installation art by contemporary French artist Annette Messager, is, without a doubt, intriguing. However, her 1972 piece titled "Mes pensionnaires"("My Borders") is one of my all time favorite art works ever. Yes, it is a collection of dead birds wearing handmade wool sweaters, but there is something so incredibly touching and disturbing about it at the same time that I can't look away.


Here is an excerpt from a great interview with Messager from the "Journal of Contemporary Art" that touches, I think, on the appeal of this artwork for me:
Interviewer: ... "Freud said that toys were the child's first contact with artworks. Your dolls and birds and effigies have a very particular status. "Mes pensionnaires" (My Borders, 1972), your little stuffed birds with wool clothes or "Mes Petites effigies" (My Little Effigies, 1988), stuffed toys attached to the wall with texts, are not toys. You are not working in a nostalgic mode nor in a childlike world....".
Messager: ... "I will place a photo or a word on the doll, a sentimental value which will give more of a charge. I invest the doll with another content, like African voodoo effigies, the kind of emotional charge people usually consider negative, a strong sentimental content. With "Mes petites effigies" ridiculous little dolls somehow become disturbing."
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confetti system

Right now I'm just all agog over the installation pieces, metallic pinatas, and all around dazzling paper work of artists and friends Nicholas Andersen and Julie Ho and their collaborative project, Confetti System. And aside from wanting to dress my wedding, life, and self with their creations - I also think their philosophy in what and why they create is pretty cool too:

Confetti System... "transforms simple materials such as issue paper, cardboard, and silk into interactive objects that create a point of focus, where memories are made and a spontaneous collaboration with the viewer is sparked. [Confetti System's] creations occupy the space between the ephemeral and the permanent, evoking a sense of nostalgia and lighthearted fun."




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"the web itself is a miracle"

Saw this:

which made me think of this:
Have you heard about the words that appeared in the spider's web?" asked Mrs. Arable nervously.
"Yes," replied the doctor.
"Well, do you understand it?" asked Mrs. Arable.
"Understand what?"
"Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?"
"Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that matter I don't understand how a spider learned to spin a web in the first place. When the words appeared, everyone said they were a miracle. But nobody pointed out that the web itself is a miracle."
"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle-it's just a web."
"Ever try to spin one?" asked Dr. Dorian.
Mrs. Arable shifted uneasily in her chair. "No," she replied. "But I can crochet a doily and I can knit a sock."
"Sure," said the doctor. "But somebody taught you, didn't they?"
"My mother taught me.""Well, who taught a spider? A young spider knows how to spin a web without any instructions from anybody. Don't you regard that as a miracle?"
"I suppose so," said Mrs. Arable. "I never looked at it that way before. Still, I don't understand it, and I don't like what I can't understand."
"None of us do," said Dr. Dorian, sighing. "I'm a doctor. Doctors are supposed to understand everything. But I don't understand everything, and I don't intend to let it worry me."
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