Installation art

Rachel Whiteread, Embankment at Tate Modern, London

Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.

Quotes

• [Ilya Kabakov] saw Total Installation as a new art form that incorporated all the forms that had come before, including painting, drawing, sculpture, plus the theatrical forms of scene-making, music, and the atmosphere created by the interaction of light and color. If the artist has properly manipulated all these elements, those who enter become "simultaneously both a 'victim' and a viewer, who on the one hand surveys and evaluates the installation, and on the other, follows those associations, recollections which arise in him; he is overcome by the intense atmosphere of the total illusion.
  • Ilya Kabakov, ‎Emilia Kabakov (2005). An alternative history of art: Rosenthal, Kabakov, Spivak. p. 148

• Many of Maryanne Amacher’s most notable works are known only by reputation. They were site-specific installations that would be difficult, perhaps even impossible, to recreate, although several have been staged in new versions for different locations. Moreover, the handful of recordings that offer samples of her scores barely do them justice: Ms. Amacher was less concerned with sound on its own terms than with the way sound was perceived in space and over extended time periods.
  • Allan Kozinn, "Maryanne Amacher: obituary," in New York Times, 2009

• I like to take man-made objects and push them to the point where they almost lose their reference, so that they become something else, take on other alliances.
  • Cornelia Parker, at Cornelia Parker - Quotes - The European Graduate School, at egs.edu, 2015.

• Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings. As soon as one does work on walls, the idea of using the whole wall follows. It means that the art is intimately involved with the architecture. It is available to be seen by everyone. It avoids the preciousness of gallery or museum installations. Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.
  • Sol LeWitt, Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow, art interview in:Bomb Magazine, Fall 2003.

• I make all this stuff in the studio, but I also work on these white elephants — like House or Untitled Monument — things that are incredibly ambitious, take an awful long time to do, involve a lot of controversy, an awful lot of people, and don't make any money particularly, but it's just because I need to make them.
  • Rachel Whiteread As quoted in "Some day my plinth will come" by Lynn Barber in The Guardian (27 May 2001)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Installation art on Wikipedia
• Media related to Installation art on Wikimedia Commons
• The dictionary definition of installation art on Wiktionary