Gold Fine Arts and Art Installation Design · 2020
Inorganic Mineral Installation Art
by Lee Chi
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: Botaniplan Von Lee Chi
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 60,953
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About Inorganic Mineral Installation Art
Inspired by profound feelings towards nature and experience as an architect, Lee Chi focuses on the creation of unique botanical art installations. By reflecting upon the nature of art and researching creative techniques, Lee transforms life events into formalized artworks. The theme of this series of works is to investigate the nature of materials and how materials can be reconstructed by the aesthetic system and new perspective. Lee also believes that the redefinition and reconstruction of plants and other artificial materials may make natural landscape have an emotional impact on people.
Lee Chi's Inorganic Mineral Installation Art emerges from a rich tradition of artists exploring the intersection between natural phenomena and human creative intervention, evoking the spirit of naturkunst cabinets while simultaneously engaging contemporary discourse around materiality, ecological consciousness, and the aesthetics of natural systems. The work demonstrates remarkable technical achievement in its handling of diverse materials unified through thoughtful chromatic orchestration, where the striking complementary relationship between coral-rose and cerulean-turquoise creates visual vibrancy while maintaining harmonious balance. The artist appears to have orchestrated a careful conversation between found mineral specimens, crafted elements, and organic materials, each component contributing distinct textural and tonal qualities to the assembled whole. Particularly noteworthy passages include the delicate radiolarian-inspired spheres with their precise spike projections, suggesting microscopic marine organisms magnified to contemplable scale, and the glossy black nodular form whose bubble-like surface creates compelling dialogue with the surrounding matte granularity. The compositional strategy of allowing the sculptural mass to extend through multiple irregular projections creates dynamic silhouette and invites circumambulation, rewarding observation from multiple vantages. Thematically, the work seems to meditate upon processes of accretion, growth, and transformation that characterize both geological time and organic development, perhaps suggesting the interconnectedness of living and mineral realms within earth systems. The pristine presentation against pure white ground transforms the assemblage into something approaching sacred specimen, inviting the close looking and wonder historically associated with natural history collections. Viewers might consider how the work challenges categorical distinctions between natural and artificial, asking what differentiates mineral from organism, found object from crafted form.
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- Unique Properties
- The theme of this series of works is to investigate the nature of materials and how materials, after being disassembled, can be reconstructed by the aesthetic system and new perspective. Lee also probes into the utilization of plants in the city apart from the outdoor landscape. The redefinition and reconstruction of plants and other artificial materials may make natural landscape have an emotional impact on people.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 500mm x Depth 800mm x Height 800mm
- Tags
- inorganic mineral, installation art, environment, recycle, botanical, biomimetic, nature, artwork, exhibition, craft
- Production Technology
- iron mesh, foaming agent, wood, aluminum foil, charcoal, ore, polyester, dried flower, marble, acrylic paint
- Design Challenge
- The most challenging part of this research is to deconstruct the landscape and texture in Taiwan's cities and then from which let the artworks demonstrate the spiritual images of the environment and the connection between different material compositions. The series of works looks for permanent installations in space that link those images while signifying the necessary contingency measures for particular places with different environmental conditions.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2019 in Taipei and finished in March 2019 in Taipei.
Artwork was exhibited in Botaniplan Von Lee Chi studio during May 23 to June 6, 2019. And also artwork gallery BOUNTIFUL JOURNEY in Taipei during September 23 to 28, 2019. - Operation Flow
- This installation is intended to be displayed statically.
- Research
- This series of works explores the way to make the non-recyclables produced non-unidirectional value under the economic system. It carries out experiments on its development potentials and various techniques of the manufacturing process based on the nature of materials. Therefore, the inorganic waste can be recycled and remade as mixed media for artworks.
- Inspiration
- Inorganic substances, as recognizable compounds, have become the primary environmental condition for people in cities to rely on. Based on Taiwan's history, it is understandable to see a delicate balance between the social class and quality in cities. However, Lee Chi believes that the actual outline of environments would only emerge if we exclude the knowledge we get from all cultures and civilizations, he sheds light on the relationship between his artworks and space where they settle.
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Inorganic substances, as recognizable compounds, have become the primary environmental condition for people in cities to rely on. Based on Taiwan's history, it is understandable to see a delicate balance between the social class and quality in cities. Lee engages the artworks with the environmental elements and emphasizes that the natural generative context covers all the changes as well as details on the earth today. For that reason, he sheds light on the relationship between his artworks and space where they settle.
The theme of this series of works is to investigate the nature of materials and how materials, after being disassembled, can be reconstructed by the aesthetic system and new perspective. Lee also probes into the utilization of plants in the city apart from the outdoor landscape. The redefinition and reconstruction of plants and other artificial materials may make natural landscape have an emotional impact on people.
I will continue to create artworks.
It took us a month to complete the production.
I decided to set this concept myself because I consider the changes in the environment need to be presented artistically.
The works are produced by me and my company “Botaniplan von Lee Chi”, and the artworks are all sold and rent.
I want to present the intersection between the environment and humans in the form of artworks.
I like to see all types of design, as well as the process and solving ability of different designers thinking about an issue.
We have not set a target customer.
Computers, pens, and all of related equipments that will be used to complete the artwork.
I think the most unique aspect in our designs is to deconstruct the landscape and texture in Taiwan's cities and then from which let the artworks demonstrate the spiritual images of the environment and the connection between different material compositions.
Myself, and a team with various backgrounds including fine art, architecture, fashion, and industrial design.
This series of works explores the way to make the non-recyclables produced non-unidirectional value under the economic system. It carries out experiments on its development potentials and various techniques of the manufacturing process based on the nature of materials. Therefore, the inorganic waste can be recycled and remade as mixed media for artworks.
The main challenge is how to respond to changes in the reality.
Executed by my team.
Through the design process, we are more aware of the environmental issues that we have been paying attention to, and we need to work harder to solve them through design.