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Ovoids Installation Features Massive Kinetic Pendulum Forms

Eight vibrant red ovoids float gracefully from the museum’s ceiling, their polished surfaces catching and reflecting light. But these aren’t just static art pieces—they’re alive with movement, engaging in a carefully orchestrated pendulum dance.

Their gentle, rhythmic swaying captivates viewers, turning the space into a dynamic, ever-shifting focal point.

A follow-on to SpY’s previous installation under a large bridge in Riyadh, this installation in Rome adds motion in a subtle yet fascinating way.

SpY’s inspiration comes straight from nature, embracing shapes honed by evolution for survival—protection, storage, reproduction.

The oval shape, seen in nature, represents basic power and balance. In this installation, SpY turns a simple shape into a captivating expression of life’s core essence.

With their suggestive geometry, these ovoids evoke the forms that nature has evolutionarily developed to satisfy essential functions such as protection and storage, thus ensuring survival and reproduction.

What distinguishes this installation is the hypnotic pendular swaying of the aligned ovoids, whose continuous and rhythmic movement captures the viewer’s attention and induces a state of full contemplation.

-SpY

Images © Rubén P. Bescós. Used with artist’s permission.

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Massive Glowing Ovoid Installation in Riyadh

Like something out of an ominous science fiction, this massive glowing red orb makes a memorable impression.

Installed as part of the Noor Riyadh light festival, the huge, 35-meter (114 ft) tall ovoid is suspended under the Wadi Hanifah Bridge, and emits an intense red glow, which is reflected in the river below.

The shape, combined with the hovering lit form, make for a true alien-like arrival.

Design studio SpY is responsible for the project, which is bold and unforgettable.

Photographs by Rubén P. Bescós, used with permission. See more of the photographer’s work on his website.

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Architecture

12000 Traffic Cones Turn Building Into Dramatic Art

Echoing some of Christo’s most visually impactful art installations, SpY has transformed Ghent University’s Aula Academia into an illuminated spiky creation.

Using an impressive 11,984 illuminated traffic cones, the main neoclassical columns have been festooned to transform them into something dramatic, eye catching, and wild.

It’s a fascinating juxtaposition, pairing classic architecture and smooth stone with something bright, plastic, and more symbolic of caution, or construction.

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The cones are cleverly positioned like puzzle pieces to completely cover the columns. The addition of lighting really transform the entire installation into a marvel to behold.

Simply named CONES, the installation is part of a larger light festival that includes Charles Pétillon, Benedikt Tolar, Atelier Sisu, and more.

““Cones” is a site-specific installation of hundreds of traffic cones wrapped around the front columns of the Aula Academica at Ghent University. The intervention alters the building’s assumed solemnity through an unconventional and thornily subversive aesthetic re-envisioning of its front.

Working from the appropriation of an everyday urban element, the piece takes over the building to create unexpected and intrusive, yet playful encounters for viewers. During the night the cones glow, adding a layer of transformation to the experience of the street space.”

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Hundreds of Emergency Blankets Turned Into Shimmering Gallery Installation

Emergency blankets are those super-thin, reflective metalized plastic sheets that are used to trap body heat for people suffering from hypothermia.

Spanish artist SpY has reimagined them as gallery art, hanging hundreds of them in a close grid, which move in a subtle choreographed manner with music.

The subtle flowing movement and reflective gold and silver surfaces make the installation feel much more than the sum of its parts. The scale and verticality of the exhibit Blankets a zen and meditative quality, especially in the large white gallery space.

On display at the Times Art Museum in Chengdu, China.

See more of SpY’s impressive installation artwork on Instagram and their website. 

“In line with some of SpY’s most celebrated projects, “Blankets” makes use of real-life objects as sculptural elements. The artist drastically reframes these objects –often loaded with symbolic connotations– to subvert expectations and meanings.

“Blankets” offers a fluid visual experience in which the artwork never looks the same. In addition to its shifting shape, the scale of the piece invites visitors to view it from contrasting perspectives, from which either the golden or silver sides of the blankets are visible.

This monumental installation is currently on view at the main hall of the Times Art Museum in Chengdu, China, as part of the exhibition “瞬息涌现 A Momentary Spring.”

 

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