I found this art installation very stunning and powerful so I would like to share. From observing this work, I think that installation art doesn’t need to be so obvious that people would know what it is from a distance. Sometimes it might be better to allow people to come look closer, walk back and forward to see the detail and a whole picture then it become more interactive. I think if they know what it is right away, the work would not be fascinated. The work of Japanese artist Akiko Ikeuchi. Born in Tokyo in 1964, Akiko received a doctorate in painting from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. For over two decades he has been hanging his delicately crafted string sculptures in galleries around Japan, Korea, and New York. The installations are constructed from extremely delicate silk threads, and despite the chaotic appearance of the knotted webs Akiko plans each work as an architect would plan a building with precision blueprints that involve a complex internal framework. The resulting works evoke powerful forces of nature: tornadoes, whirlpools, and perhaps even galaxies themselves.
