Tide and Stream Instalasi Artistik by Huifeng Lin

Tide and Stream Instalasi Artistik by Huifeng Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Perak in Desain Seni Rupa dan Instalasi Seni Competition Category.

PerakSeni Rupa· 2020

Tide and Stream Instalasi Artistik

by Huifeng Lin

Client: Bsa Design

A' Design Award Perak Winner in Seni Rupa Category

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The Design

About Tide and Stream Instalasi Artistik

Tide and Stream adalah sebuah instalasi seni yang diciptakan untuk sebuah bangunan di Guangzhou. Bagian atas yang transparan melambangkan pasang (tide), mewakili hal-hal yang dibawa ke Guangzhou dari tempat lain. Elemen-elemennya yang berwarna-warni dimaksudkan untuk menarik perhatian kaum muda. Bagian bawah yang terbuat dari logam melambangkan arus sungai (stream), mewakili hal-hal lokal dari pedalaman yang kuat dan kaya makna. Aksara-aksara yang membawa budaya Kanton serta sikap hidup masyarakat Guangzhou ditampilkan di sana dalam bentuk pelat huruf cetak lepas. Instalasi ini dibuat dari baja nirkarat berwarna champagne gold, akrilik transparan, dan baja nirkarat dengan cetak sablon.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Tide and Stream Instalasi Artistik adalah pemenang A' Design Award Perak, pengakuan yang sangat bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain kelas atas yang indah dan mengesankan. Pemenang Perak adalah karya yang sangat cemerlang dan sangat kreatif yang menggambarkan keahlian, bakat, dan ketajaman luar biasa para desainernya. Tide and Stream Instalasi Artistik diharapkan menjadi karya yang menakjubkan, etalase keahlian, sangat profesional, dan sangat inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Perak ini adalah penemuan yang sangat menonjol dan dikagumi yang bermanfaat bagi dan memajukan batas-batas seni, sains, desain, dan teknologi. Tide and Stream Instalasi Artistik adalah kreasi yang sangat dicemburui yang membangkitkan keinginan, membawa perasaan positif, dan memercikkan keheranan dan kekaguman.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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.