Golden Dot Invasion Christmas Decoration by Impactplan Art Productions is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Golden A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Competition Category.
GoldFine Art· 2021
Golden Dot Invasion Christmas Decoration
Client: Impactplan art productions
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Fine Art Category
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About Golden Dot Invasion Christmas Decoration
An ephemeral art installation inspired by the "Midas touch", composed by 1.000.000 golden sequins to attract good luck and fortune! To create a tunnel effect were used different size chains from 1 to 6 meters long that move with the wind, shine and create reflections in the surrounding area, depending on the incidence of light. Hidden in the middle of the golden dots, 2880 meters of golden led light curtains light up in the night involving the viewer by transforming their state of mind!
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Golden Dot Invasion Christmas Decoration is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Golden Dot Invasion Christmas Decoration is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Golden Dot Invasion Christmas Decoration creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Large-Scale Public Art Installation Services
We transform cities, hotels, and events with vibrant art installations that create viral moments and lasting memories. Our internationally recognized team specializes in ephemeral and permanent installations that color urban landscapes, attract visitors, and generate social media buzz. From our famous Umbrella Sky to custom creations, we bring art to everyone.
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Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to transforming the Ritz Carlton Bahrain with Golden Dot Invasion Christmas Decoration through one million golden sequins is remarkable - could you share the journey from initial concept to achieving this mesmerizing tunnel effect?
Our vision was to merge the elegance of the hotel with the festive spirit in a way that felt unique and immersive. To bring this vision to life, we collaborated with dozens of incredibly talented local artisans. Their craftsmanship and dedication were at the heart of this project. Over 1200 hours of manual labor went into this creation, what made it unique down to the smallest detail. Our installations are often characterized by the repetition of objects, and for a project as grand as this, we used an incredible one million golden sequins! Seeing the final result, a mesmerizing golden tunnel that guests could walk through, was incredibly rewarding. It transformed the space into a magical experience.
The integration of 2,880 meters of LED light curtains within Golden Dot Invasion Christmas Decoration creates a stunning day-to-night transformation - how did you develop this dual-identity concept that engages viewers in such distinctly different ways?
What is Christmas without some lights? We wanted the installation to captivate viewers both during the day and at night, creating two distinct but complementary atmospheres. During the day, the one million golden sequins shimmer with natural light, creating a vibrant and playful interaction with the surroundings. We wanted the installation to keep shining as the sun set. By using LED lights, we were able to create a seamless transition from day to night. The soft, glowing lights add depth and warmth to the tunnel, highlighting the intricate details of the sequins and amplifying the festive atmosphere. This dual-identity concept reflects our commitment to creating installations that are not only visually striking but also immersive and engaging throughout different times of the day.
The Midas touch legend served as inspiration for Golden Dot Invasion Christmas Decoration - could you elaborate on how you translated this ancient story into a contemporary installation that aims to transform visitors' emotional states?
The legend of King Midas, with its themes of transformation and the allure of gold, was a perfect inspiration for the Golden Dot Invasion Christmas Decoration. We wanted to reinterpret this ancient story in a way that felt fresh and contemporary, while still evoking the sense of wonder and magic associated with it. In the legend, Midas’s touch transforms everything into gold, we sought to create a space enveloped in gold where visitors could feel this transformative magic. The use of gold also holds deeper meanings, as it is often associated with good luck, prosperity, and abundance—qualities we wanted to infuse into the festive season and the overall atmosphere of the hotel. Our goal was to spark joy and awe, inviting visitors to pause, reflect, and feel a sense of connection to the beauty and symbolism around them. In a way, we wanted each person walking through to experience their own “Midas moment,” where the ordinary transforms into something extraordinary and radiates positivity for the future.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This is an ephemeral artistic installation created to serve as a differentiating Christmas decoration, outside the Hotel Ritz Carlton Bahrain. This installation is not static, it moves with the wind, shines and creates reflections in the surrounding area, depending on the incidence of light, during the day it has a charm at night when the lights hidden in the middle of the golden sequins turn on creates a different image that makes the viewer involved in the show created by the changes in the environment, taking pictures, sharing on social networks, making the image viral and contributing to increase the client's notoriety through art.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 2600m2 of reinforced PVC net, to affix 1,000,000 sequins about 90mm in diameter each, in chains of variable sizes minimum 10 pieces approximately 1000 mm in length up to maximum 60 pieces 6000 mm in length, in order to create the tunnel effect we created a central section with approximately 1000mm in length and 4 lateral sections where the length grows as we move towards the outer side of the installation.
Every 3000mm we placed a Led light curtain in golden tones with a length between 500mm and 1000mm, so that they are hidden between the golden sequins and surprise at the end of the day when the lights turn on - Tags
- golden art installation, art production, art for all, street art, golden dot invasion, golden tunnel, golden art
- Production Technology
- we used 2600m2 of reinforced PVC net, to affix 1,000,000 sequins about 90mm in diameter each, in chains of variable sizes minimum 10 pieces approximately 1000 mm in length up to maximum 60 pieces 6000 mm in length, in order to create the tunnel effect we created a central section with approximately 1000mm in length and 4 lateral sections where the length grows as we move towards the outer side of the installation.
Every 1000mm we placed a Led light curtain in golden tones with a length between 500mm and 1000mm, so that they are hidden between the golden sequins and surprise at the end of the day when the lights turn on - Design Challenge
- The main challenge for us was to create a "portable" art installation with this size and finding solutions to transport and build it quickly in place. We developed a fixation system in a net that allows to be rolled up and divided into sections compatible with the needs, which made it easier to transport and to build the installation quicker in site. This project involved a lot of artisanal work in its preparation and involved more than 100 people and hundreds of hours of manual work during 2 months of assemblies. On-site assemblies involved about 20 workers local labor for 8 days
- Research
- we drawn peoples attention by creating impact so we use a formula for our art installations based on what we observed during the years, for example finding a colorful place in the middle of a grey city, will definitely drawn peoples attention.The staring point is always using intense and vibrant colors, unusual objects in unexpected places, to provoke immediate comments, feelings reactions
- Inspiration
- The inspiration was the beautiful subjectivity in the legend about the touch of Midas. The one with the Midas touch is the one who has the ability to make something prosper, multiplies profits, turns everything it touches into gold. With this in mind we decided to create a golden tunnel where people enter and do not turn into gold but the environment transforms their state of mind for the better, happier, lighter...
- Project Duration
- 1 month from December to January 2019/2020
The Ritz Carlton, Bahrain kingdom, Manama - Operation Flow
- people who pass by this art installation are not indifferent they take pictures and share with family and friends, making it alive and live longer trough peoples good memories and pictures
- Team Members
- Patrícia Cunha - creative Director/CEO
Bruno Almeida - CEO
Catarina Maria - designer
Bruno Silva - Developer technical department/new products - Image Credits
- Impactplan Art Productions
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