4 Burning man art installations
Burning Man is a festival that happens every year at Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. It lasts a week, and it starts on the last Monday in August, and ends on the first Monday in September (which is also Labor Day in the U.S.). The festival is called Burning Man because a large wood sculpture of a man is set on fire on Saturday. The festival has been happening every year since 1990.
Embrace
Embrace is a Kickstarter co-funded project showcased during the Burning Man 2014 Honorarium Installations Project. Vying for the official Temple at Burning Man and created by The Pier Group as their sixth Burning Man project, it is a 24 meters tall wooden sculpture of two human figures in an embrace. with two large cavernous cathedral-like spaces that make up the base, one inside each body, and a massive heart hanging from the ceiling.
Big Rig Jig
Constructed in 2007 from two disused and repurposed 18-wheeler oil tanker trucks welded together, Big Rig Jig by an American sculptor Mike Ross, known for his large scale public art projects, is one the most impressive projects ever created for Burning Man.
Inspiring thoughts of wonder, fear and instability, this real size, 14 meters tall, semi-truck creation serves both as a sculpture and an architectural space, as visitors may enter it, climb through it and emerge at the top of it. Representing the relationship between humankind and nature. Ross’ breathtaking Big Rig Jig piece, built at the American Steel art fabrication shop in Oakland, California, is a powerful commentary of America’s unsustainable oil economy.
Mimicking the Natural Design
Kirsten Berg from Newark, CA designed this hypnotizing installation for 2015 Burning Man. Compound I was a glistening pillar of eyeballs resembling the compound eyes of insects. It featured numberless mirrored spheres and convex mirrors, placed one atop the other to a height of 18 inches.
Return to Innocence
The artwork Love, made by a Ukrainian creator Alexandr Milov for 2015 Burning Man, depicts a universal conflict between a man and a woman as well as the outer and inner human nature. The main figures of man and woman are made in the form of metal cages, while their inner selves, captivated inside the cages, are portrayed as children made from a subtle, semi-transparent material.
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