Fine Art

Explore 200 award-winning designs tagged Fine Art on DXGN.

Designer: Hikoko Ito Project Type: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Happy Birthday Likeboxes

Happy Birthday Likeboxes is an art installation formed by 366 illuminated mailboxes, one for each day of the year. Each mailbox door carries a pattern that hides a Chinese character, and visitors decipher the pattern to open the matching box. Inside, a hand-drawn birthday card left by an earlier visitor can be found. Each visitor then draws a new card for a future visitor and places the card in a postbox. The mailboxes are made of plastic, acrylic plates and LED lights. The installation encourages personal expression and kindness.

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Designer: yang Lu Project Type: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Weightlessness

Weightlessness is an immersive video installation that explores the feeling of being lost in the city. The main structure is built from scaffolding, with simulated plants placed in the gaps to recreate a miniature urban landscape. Aerial footage of high-rise residential buildings, recorded by drones, is projected inside to give the audience a sense of falling. The sound combines mechanical noise with a faint heartbeat. Visitors move freely through the internal and external spaces. The installation reflects on the effect of rapid urban development on the environment and people.

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Designer: Jin Ying Yei Tao Pottery Ltd Project Type: Installation Art Tag: Fine Art

Endless Succession

Endless Succession is a ceramic landmark installed at the entrance of the Neidong National Forest Recreation Area in Taiwan. The form resembles an upright figure eight, suggesting the infinity symbol, and recalls the parabola of the Xinxian Waterfall. The permeable structure acts as an archway that leads visitors into the forest. Green surfaces carry red and black Atayal totems and relief carvings of local species, including butterflies, birds and tree frogs. The clay and glaze are fired above 1,200 degrees Celsius, making the handmade work weather resistant, colorfast and safe to touch.

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Designer: Kai Mao Project Type: Art Sculpture Tag: Fine Art

Butterfly and Lady

Butterfly And Lady is a bronze sculpture that depicts a woman adorned with butterflies. The figure has her eyes closed, suggesting deep thought or dreaming, while butterflies rest on her head and shoulders as symbols of freedom and transformation. The work is cast with the traditional lost wax method. A thermal coloring process gives the bronze surface a marble-like texture, and the butterflies are rendered in a gold-like material for contrast. The sculpture measures 750 by 495 by 476 millimeters and reflects on the relationship between people and nature.

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Designer: Nargiza Usmanova Project Type: Recycled Artistic Installation Tag: Fine Art

Tangled Paths

Tangled Paths is a large art installation made from recycled materials. The work measures three meters in width, depth and height. Cardboard sheets and egg cartons form twisting frames that are joined with glue and supported by steel rods, nuts and washers. Acrylic paint gives the interwoven structures their color. Placed in an office lobby, the sculpture can be viewed from every angle, and visitors may pass through the piece. Tangled Paths reflects the movement of city life and promotes the use of recycled materials.

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Designer: Junse Culture And Art Dev. Co., Ltd Project Type: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Bow and Arrow

Bow and Arrow is an art installation that reinterprets the traditional bow and arrow in a modern manner. The bow integrates the form of the human spine, a shape chosen to suggest both the strength and the fragility of life. The arrowheads are replaceable and are carved to resemble the Four Heavenly Kings of Eastern Buddhism. High quality metal and stainless steel are cut, polished and carved to form the parts. The installation measures 1900 by 300 by 1900 millimetres. Themes of war and peace, and of life and spirit, are conveyed through the combined forms.

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Designer: doT & associates Project Type: Installation Art Tag: Fine Art

Wind Crystals

Wind Crystals is an outdoor art installation built in Budai County, Taiwan. The work recalls the local salt industry through forms based on salt crystals. Mahogany wood is cut at two special angles to create tapered polygonal frames, which are joined into a truss structure that can be extended freely. Only two component types form the whole body, so the parts are prepared in a factory and the on-site assembly time is kept short. The installation covers 24 square meters and turns with the sea breeze, following light and shadow along the coast.

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Designer: Derya Geylani Vuruşan Project Type: Artwork Tag: Fine Art

Proof of Rain

Proof of Rain is a contemporary glass sculpture inspired by rainfall. The work is made of hot shaped glass in varying shades of blue. Small droplets, formed through flameworking with a controlled splashing effect, represent raindrops. A blown blue form beneath the droplets represents the accumulation of life experiences. The sculpture measures 380 by 200 by 450 millimeters. Proof of Rain is shown as a static installation, and light reveals the depth and reflections of the glass. The intent is to join nature and craft in one form.

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Designer: Egemen Kemal Vurusan Project Type: Glass Sculpture Series Tag: Fine Art

Circus

Circus is a series of glass sculptures inspired by circus performers. The forms are made from high-grade soda-lime glass using hot glass blowing and shaping techniques. Bold, mismatched colors and exaggerated asymmetrical shapes reflect the disorder of modern urban life. The ball and legs of each sculpture are joined by hot bonding, and thermal annealing stabilizes the final form. Each piece is handcrafted with precision for balance and stability. Circus is made for observation, and its appearance changes with ambient light and viewing angle.

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Designer: Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato Project Type: Whole Plastic Architecture Tag: Fine Art

Aqua Scape the Orangery Version

This is the second version of Aqua scape. The first-version had completed as the first prototype of Whole Plastic Architecture. Aqua scape was a soft and boneless architecture. Aqua-scape The Orangery version has a double skin system although the first version was a single skin. If it is called that the first-version was boneless like a jellyfish, it is been able to say the Orangery version is like a small shrimp because it is wrapped by transparent soft shell. The first-version of Aqua scape in Japan 2006 was floating on the water, however this is floating on the grass.

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Designer: Andorka Timea Project Type: poster series Tag: Fine Art

Lockdown Memories

During the pandemic, people read a lot at home. While scientists and artists worked to change the way people thought about the future. Timea Andorka's series of five posters was inspired by these ideas and discoveries. The posters are each based on a specially illuminated, unique piece of her book art that references these ideas. They are complete with short quotes on climate change, the Blm movement, the discovery of Mars, the coronavirus crisis and the future of humanity. In the posters, recycled books symbolize both classical knowledge and the need to reinterpret outdated knowledge.

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Designer: Egemen Kemal Vurusan Project Type: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Original by Nature

Original by Nature is an art installation that turns discarded glass bottles into flowing sculptural forms. The bottles are reshaped by heat and molds through advanced upcycling methods. Each glass form holds a hydroponic system, so plants grow inside the installation. Sensor-controlled irrigation supplies water to every module, and violet ultraviolet lights at the back support plant growth. The main modular unit measures 5000 mm in width, 2000 mm in depth and 3500 mm in height. The work joins art, nature and technology to make sustainability visible.

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