ArtThat Whiteboard: Song Dong’s Installation Art
bySong Dong’s art not only evokes memories of home but also encourages audiences to reflect on the complex interplay between memory and reality, humor and trauma.
Song Dong’s art not only evokes memories of home but also encourages audiences to reflect on the complex interplay between memory and reality, humor and trauma.
The massive constructions are part of an ongoing project that shares heartfelt messages between an imaginary 100-foot-tall boy named Bobby and those who matter most in his life.
When emptiness is the theme, all his works show the artist’s ” investigation “, light and shadow are the appearances, the medium of presentation.
It goes from the softness of a seat made with paper microfibers to the elegance of white cashmere felt mixed with golden threads to the essentiality of a table carved in stone.
Chiharu Shiota often employs the use of everyday objects within her work to explore the relationship between living and dying and to access memories found within these objects.
Entitled You Are My Guest, the showing features 14 works (consisting of 244 pieces) including paintings, sculptures, installations, and videos.
Suspended from the ceiling of Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries is Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans’ installation, over a mile of bright neon lighting.
As we know, British sculptor and environmental artist Rob Mulholland usually creates eerie mirrored figure sculptures to reflect the natural landscape.