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An Impressive Aerial View and Timelapse of Record-Breaking ‘Sail Amsterdam’ 2015
Billed as the largest free nautical event in the world, Sail Amsterdam is a quinquennial (every five years) gathering of 600+ boats and tall ships that sail in a circuit in the Netherland’s North Sea...
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Hundreds of Vibrant Doors Found Within Lithuania’s “Garage Towns”...
Lithuanian artist Agne Gintalaite has always been attracted to the “garage towns” of her native Lithuania—large areas filled with storage units for cars that were terribly inconvenient and often bus...
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New Ornate Kaleidoscopic Installations That Mimic Patterned Textiles by Suzan...
Meticulously placing small, ornate materials in eye-dazzling patterns Suzan Drummen (previously) produces kaleidoscopic installations that appear like three dimensional textiles. Within these pieces...
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A Canopy of 1,100 Umbrellas Above the 2015 Habitare Design Fair in Finland
To transform the interior of the Ahead Arena at the 2015 Habitare Design Fair in Finland (part of Helsinki Design Week), environmental artist Kaisa Berry and creative director Timo Berry of BOTH...
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In 2001, Artist Ha Schult Wrapped a Former Berlin Post Office in Thousands of...
German conceptual artist HA Schult (b. 1939) has often worked in the realm of other people’s trash, creating large scale-works that force art into everyday life and call attention to the massive...
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New Nail Sculptures by John Bisbee That Twist Across Floors and Walls
John Bisbee (previously) has worked with nails as a sculptural medium since he accidentally toppled a bucket of them years ago and was astonished to see how they remained intact, rusted and fused into...
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Artist Paul Villinski Brings Flight to the Gallery with Swarms of Repurposed...
Fallen, 2015 Steel, aluminum (found cans), wire, soot, Flashe; 62-3/4″ x 113-1/4″ x 9-1/2″ Working with repurposed objects like aluminum cans and old gloves, artist Paul Villinski (previously)...
View ArticleA Quick Walk Through Chiharu Shiota’s Striking Key Installation at the Venice...
Earlier this summer artist Chiharu Shiota unveiled her magnificent installation ‘The Key in the Hand‘ at the 2015 Venice Biennale. The sprawling artwork incorporates several old wooden boats, above...
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Ai Weiwei Wraps the Columns of Berlin’s Konzerthaus with 14,000 Salvaged...
Image via Markus Winninghoff Image via Oliver Lang / Konzerthaus Berlin Ai Weiwei has produced a five-column installation on the facade of Berlin’s Konzerthaus, a collection of 14,000 life vests from...
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Stirring the Swarm: A Horde of 10,000 Ceramic Beetles Crawl Across Gallery Walls
Like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, UK artist Anna Collette Hunt leads swarms of 10,000 ceramic insects in a traveling exhibition that first appeared several years ago in the towers of Wollaton Hall,...
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Things Organized Neatly: A New Book of Compulsively Organized Things by...
Sarah Illenberger One of my oldest sources of visual inspiration on the internet (and one of a handful of early art/design blogs that inspired me to start Colossal in 2010) was Things Organized Neatly,...
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50,000 Solar Powered Bulbs Illuminate the Australian Desert in Bruce Munro’s...
All images courtesy of Bruce Munro Over 50,000 bulbs light up an expanse of Australia’s Red Centre desert near Ayers Rock in an installation about the size of four football fields. The solar powered...
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New Rainbow-Hued Origami Street Art by Mademoiselle Maurice
Mademoiselle Maurice’s work hanging from the Museum of National Art Singapore, all images via Mademoiselle Maurice. Museum of National Art Singapore It’s been a few years since we last featured French...
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Bits and Pieces: An Expandable Kinetic Toy Sphere Installation by Nils Volker
Bits and Pieces, 2016. Nils Völker. Plastic balls, wood, motors, custom electronics and programming, size variable. Photo by Bresadola+Freese/drama-berlin.de For his latest kinetic installation titled...
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Cherry Blossoms Flood the Inokashira Park Lake in Tokyo
Photograph © Danilo Dungo Every spring, photographer Danilo Dungo spends time at Inokashira Park in Tokyo, famous for its abundance of blooming cherry trees. The photographer has become a master at...
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A Kinetic Artwork that Sorts Thousands of Random River Stones by Age
Performing the role of a scientist, Benjamin Maus and Prokop Bartonicek’s kinetic machine Jller selects and sorts pebbles found on a 6 1/2 x 13 foot platform into a grid organized by geologic age....
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Undulating Shell Sculptures by Rowan Mersh
Turritella Duplicata II, 2015. Turritella duplicata shells. London-based artist Rowan Mersh assembles dense rolling surfaces comprised of thousands of seashells, tiny solid objects that now appear like...
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Organic Creatures Crafted from Plastic Cable Ties by Sui Park
Amoeba. Fish. Sea anemone. Aliens. These are all fair interpretations of Korean artist Sui Park's sculptures and installations made from interlocked cable ties. Weaving together the plastic fasteners...
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Magical Photographs of Fireflies from Japan’s 2016 Summer
Photo by Yu Hashimoto. Each year when summer comes along, we all look forward to different things. Some of us head to the beach, others to the mountains for camping. Some look forward to the epicurean...
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The Lunar Cycle Displayed Through 15,000 Colorful Origami Birds
All images via Mathgoth Gallerie Mademoiselle Maurice (previously here and here) recently produced the mural “The Lunar Cycle” in collaboration with the French Mathgoth Gallerie, a temporary piece...
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