Glacier Lament Art Installation Lighting Film by Jiabao Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Bronze A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Competition Category.
BronzeFine Art· 2022
Glacier Lament Art Installation Lighting Film
by Jiabao Li
Client: Jiabao Li
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Fine Art Category
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About Glacier Lament Art Installation Lighting Film
Glacier Lament is an art installation about the loss of glaciers. Pantone lists four color cards for glacier blue, yet in real glaciers this blue is variable and dynamic. As glaciers disappear, this unique blue also disappears. The blue tones of glaciers in Alaska were sampled and blended, then held in sixty recycled glass vials suspended above a canvas. Each time a glacier calving event occurred, one vial fell. By the end of the exhibition all sixty vials had fallen, forming a painting on the canvas beneath.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Glacier Lament Art Installation Lighting Film is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Glacier Lament Art Installation Lighting Film is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Glacier Lament Art Installation Lighting Film splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- There are four color cards in PANTONE for glacier blue. However, in real glaciers, this blue color is variable and dynamic. As glaciers are disappearing, this unique blue is also disappearing. We sampled and blended the blue color from glaciers in Alaska and hung them in recycled glass vials. When one glacier calving happened, one color vial fell down. At the end of the exhibition, all 60 vials fell down, forming a painting on the canvas beneath.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 4m x 6m x 6m
- Tags
- Glacier, climate change, light, Alaska
- Production Technology
- Data sonification, data physicalization, electronics, glacier melting data
- Inspiration
- Glaciers are sentinels of climate change. They are the most visible evidence of global warming today. This series of works embodies the stunning beauty, rapid change, fragility, destructive power, and magnificence of glaciers. At the same time, they challenge the audience with the dramatic, irreversible ecological damages from climate change.
- Project Duration
- Anchorage Museum, Alaska, 2021
Alaska State Museum, 2021
Donghu Shan Art Museum, China, Jul–Nov 2020
Global Just Recovery Gathering, Apr 2021
Broto Art-Climate-Science, Nov–Dec 2020
Artists in Nature International Network, Dynamic natural connections, 2021 - Team Members
- Direction, Concept, Artist: Jiabao Li
Editor: Ryan Cortes Perez
Producer: Cooper Galvin - Image Credits
- Jiabao Li
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