Tide and Stream Artistic Installation by Huifeng Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Competition Category.
SilverFine Art· 2020
Tide and Stream Artistic Installation
by Huifeng Lin
Client: Bsa Design
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Fine Art Category
Verified Award Winner
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About Tide and Stream Artistic Installation
Tide and Stream is an artistic installation created for a building in Guangzhou. The upper transparent part represents the tide, standing for things brought to Guangzhou from other places. Its colorful elements are intended to attract young people. The lower metal part stands for the stream, representing local inland things that are strong and rich in meaning. Characters that carry Cantonese culture and the life attitude of Guangzhou people are shown there as movable type plates. The installation is made of champagne gold stainless steel, transparent acrylic and silkscreen stainless steel.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Tide and Stream Artistic Installation is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Tide and Stream Artistic Installation is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Tide and Stream Artistic Installation is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- The upper transparent part represents "tide", standing for things brought to Guangzhou from other places. Colorful and dazzling elements are loved by young people. The lower metal part stands for "stream", representing indigenous things of the inland that are strong, rich, and meaningful. Characters we believe that carry the Cantonese culture and Guangzhou people's life attitude are displayed there in the form of movable type plates.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 800mm x Depth 800mm x Height 350mm
- Tags
- Tide and stream, Pearl River, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Cantonese culture, inclusiveness, dissemination, water culture
- Production Technology
- Materials: Champaign gold stainless steel, transparent acrylic, silkscreen stainless steel.
- Design Challenge
- Digital design method was applied for 3D modeling when designing the installation. Since the artist hoped it would be a building entity, structural calculation and incident light calculation were carried out during the design process. The space underneath the installation is the first overhead layer of the building. The streamlined metal shape can form flowing air at the bottom of the building, while allowing natural light to refract at the bottom of and inside the building.
- Research
- The artist hoped the exquisite and gorgeous appearance could attract young people fond of contemporary art to appreciate the installation. They might discover what's in and behind the installation during the process of appreciation and finally get interested and think about it. The artist provided a trigger point for the audience to reflect on and think about traditional local culture, hoping more people to know about Guangzhou, an ancient and special city, from its developmental history to unique inclusiveness and to its particular role in world cultural exchange and integration.
- Inspiration
- Through years of the observation of the Pearl River tides, the designer discovered something interesting: the river water is cyan blue at high tide, and is mostly chartreuse at low tide. Cyan blue is the color of the sea while chartreuse is the color of upstream rivers. It seems to tell us the amusing phenomenon that when tides and streams converge, tides flow upward to the land and streams downward to the sea. Based on that, the design team created the artistic installation, Tide and Stream.
- Project Duration
- The project started in October 2019 and finished in December 2019 in Guangzhou.
- Operation Flow
- The designers used an artistically abstract way to express the phenomenon of tide upward and stream downward; tried to describe the similar scene where the Chinese and Western cultures collide in Guangzhou; and hoped to make visitors understand the inclusiveness of Guangzhou culture.
- Team Members
- Chief designer: Huifeng Lin
Designer: Mi Kwan
Designer: Zihao Situ
Designer: Zhiyua Pan
Designer: Qigang Feng
Design company: BSA DESIGN - Image Credits
- Image #1-Image #5: Photographer Y studio
Main image is Image #1, Optional Image #1 is Image #2, Optional Image #2 is Image #3, Optional Image #3 is Image #4, Optional Image #4 is Image #5.
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