Art does not always hang in museums. Sometimes you find them outside, where life beats louder than your heart after a 100-meter sprint. This is where Grace Banks and her team create installations whose effect penetrates even deeper when surrounded by everyday life – via the pupil into the brain and down towards the heart. Whether in the Italian hinterland, the Utah desert or hidden in Finnish forests: Art is where you see it.
Cells of Life
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Allan Pollok-Morris /
Jupiter Artland
Tide
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Art Escapes, design 2022
Digital Orca
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© Rachel Topham, Courtesy of the artist and Daniel Faria Gallery
The Tree of Utah
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Chris Detrick
The Future is Now
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© Lance Gerber
Floating Flower Garden
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© Pace Gallery
Artwork: teamLab
Floating Flower Garden: Flowers and I are of the Same Root, the Garden and I are One, 2015
Interactive Kinetic, Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
Free Floating
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© Pace Gallery
Artwork: teamLab, Expanding Three-Dimensional Existence in Transforming Space – Flattening 3 Colors and 9 Blurred Colors, Free Floating, 2018
Interactive Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahash
Resonating Microcosmos
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© Pace Gallery
Artwork: teamLab, Resonating Microcosms – Liquified Light Color, Sunrise and Sunset, 2020
Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
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Art Escapes
Art does not belong behind glass, at least not always. It beautifies a promenade or provides a scavenger hunt in the forest – and all without admission or a museum tour. Grace Banks has found installations and works, in obvious and less obvious places, and put them together with gestalten in a book. After reading “Art Escapes”, a visit to the museum will never be the same again.
design & Grace Banks, “Art Escapes. Hidden Art Experiences outside the Museum”, ca. 40(gestalten.com)
Art is where you see it. Alberto Venzago found the former in the Japanese mafia. Take a look at his pictures here.
Teaser photo & photos: © design