Rio de Janeiro, Montréal, Lisbon and London. Don’t miss some of this summer must-see outdoor installations, walking on the Northern Sea, under the Brazilian cascades, on the Swiss Alps or in Connecticut’s gardens. Read our selection of projects, published on Domusweb.it.
Best of #installations
A selection of 10 summer outdoor installations to live art, architecture and nature as a whole.
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- 06 August 2016
– Right before the opening of the Olympics, Japanese artist Mariko Mori creates an installation on top of the Véu da Noiva waterfall in Rio, combining technology and nature.
– The V&A presents in its John Madejski Garden a lightweight biomimetic pavilion inspired by the forewing shells of flying beetles, in collaboration with the University of Stuttgart.
– First created fifty years ago in 1966 for the 33rd Venice Biennale, the installation by Yayoi Kusama at the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, is made of 1,300 floating steel spheres.
– Guided by 24 waymarkers created by the artist Tobias Rehberger, walkers can explore a uniquely diverse landscape on the border between Germany and Switzerland.
– In Eliasson’s installations at Versailles displacements and destabilisation modify the perception of the spaces, inviting visitors to become active participants in the reality that surrounds them.
– Organic installations, secret gardens and ancestral forests: the summer event at the Reford Gardens in Quebec hosts the 17th edition of the International Garden Festival.
– With an installation that changes throughout day and night, collective Moradavaga installed a site-specific, interactive piece as an ode to the sun and traditional Portuguese water mills.
– At the Noordsvaarder, in the northern part of The Netherlands, Marc van Vliet built an installation that changes with the tide, revealing different aspects of the landscape.
– Designed by Jean Verville Dance Floor is an elegant installation in Montreal, Canada, offering a lively landscape animated by an exuberant trompe-l’oeil.
– Bruchus Primus and Bruchus Segundus are the two new entries of Theo Jansen’s popular bestiary: the Dutch artist will perform on the beaches at The Hague.
Top: Marc van Vliet, De Streken, Waddenzee, The Netherlands, 2016