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Installation Art

Installation art is a creative expression that involves the artist's interaction with various mediums and environments, ranging from natural materials to technology. It often encompasses entire spaces, creating a unified experience for the viewer, distinguishing it from traditional art forms. The genre gained prominence in the 1960s and has evolved with a focus on conceptual ideas, utilizing mixed media, light, and sound.

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Installation Art

Installation art is a creative expression that involves the artist's interaction with various mediums and environments, ranging from natural materials to technology. It often encompasses entire spaces, creating a unified experience for the viewer, distinguishing it from traditional art forms. The genre gained prominence in the 1960s and has evolved with a focus on conceptual ideas, utilizing mixed media, light, and sound.

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1 Installation Art

Installation art is a product of the artist’s creative mind and his/her interaction with the
medium and of the environment. The medium of installation art varies from indigenous
materials (e.g. bamboo, stones, etc) to technology driven resources (TV, Computer).

1.1 Other terms associated with installation art:

a. Light art (the use of light as an independent aesthetic medium).


b. Ephemeral art (is designed to be transitory).
c. Environmental art (work of art that becomes an integral part of the natural surroundings).

1.2 Installation artworks

Installation artworks (also sometimes described as ‘environments’) often occupy an


entire room or gallery space that the spectator has to walk through in order to engage fully with
the work of art. What makes installation art different from sculpture or other traditional art
forms is that it is a complete unified experience, rather than a display of separate, individual
artworks.

As artist Ilya Kabakov said:

“The main actor in the total installation, the main centre toward which everything is
addressed, for which everything is intended, is the viewer.”

Installation art emerged out of environments which artist such as:

 Allan Kaprov (made from about 1957 onward)


 Kurt Schwitter’s Merzbau ( 1933, an environment of several rooms created in the artist’s own
house in Hanover.

From the 1960s the creation of installation has become a major strand in modern art.
This was increasingly the case from the early 1990s when the ‘crash’ of the art market in the late
1980s led to a reawakening of interest in conceptual art (art focused on ideas rather the
objects). Miscellaneous materials (mixed media), Light and sound have remained fundamental
to installation art.

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