Alex Chinneck's New Installation
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Alex Chinneck has unveiled a new installation for the duration of Milan design week.The installation features an old Milanese building ripped open by giant zips. It sees one of the building's 17-metre-wide facades peeling back, and also creates openings in itAlex Chinneck's New Installation
Alex Chinneck has unveiled a new installation for the duration of Milan design week.The installation features an old Milanese building ripped open by giant zips. It sees one of the building's 17-metre-wide facades peeling back, and also creates openings in its interior walls and floor.Chinneck created the work for Iqos, the vaping and heated tobacco brand. He added a giant zip that seems to open the front of the building's right side to reveal a glowing light behind that fades between blue and bright white. Inside, a semi-circular hole in the floor has been unzipped so that the cement floor appears to peel back, emitting a bright white light from below. Chinneck excavated and re-poured the entire concrete floor in order to install the artwork. Another zip down the centre of an internal wall seems to drag the wall itself down and reveals a glowing light behind.«Through the repeated use of the zipper, we have opened up the fabric of a seemingly historic Milanese building to playfully reimagine what lies behind its facade, floors and walls,» said Chinneck. Ethereal light pours through each opening, filling the space with colour and filling the work with a sense of positivity and potential,« said Chinneck. »By taking familiar materials and architectural forms and making them behave in extraordinary ways, we are working with Iqos to change visitors' perceptions of what is possible."This is the first project by the artist in Italy. Chinneck gained popularity through a series of installations in London and the south-east of the UK, including Telling the Truth Through False Teeth, a project in which he fitted 312 identical broken window panes in an abandoned factory in London's Hackney.For London Design Festival four years ago, Chinneck planted an upside-down electricity pylon in a field near the financial district of Canary Wharf. He also unzipped a soon-to-be-demolished office building in Ashford, Kent last summer, near to where he had recently moved his studio.Uniting the disciplines of art, architecture and theatre the work of British sculptor Alex Chinneck is monumental in ambition and impact, producing contextually responsive interventions that animate the place in which they stand. Alex Chinneck is a graduate of Chelsea College of Art and a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. His work has been featured extensively by international media with selected projects welcoming over one million visitors. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more