Crown of the Sea General パブリックアートインスタレーション by Yu Liang Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銅賞 in ファインアート・アートインスタレーションデザイン Competition Category.
銅ファインアート· 2020
Crown of the Sea General パブリックアートインスタレーション
Client: NewLocal Art Studio
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in ファインアート Category
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About Crown of the Sea General パブリックアートインスタレーション
「海將之冠(海の将の冠)」は、台湾・雲林県口湖郷に設置されたパブリックアートインスタレーションである。作品は全長10メートル、幅3メートル、高さ4メートルの規模を持つ。ステンレススチールのフレームとセメントモルタルによって造形が構築され、表面は光沢のある釉薬タイル、砕いた陶片、玉石、鏡ガラスで覆われている。構造体の内部に設けられたベンチは日陰と休息の場を提供し、基部周囲に敷かれた白い砂利は子どもたちの遊び場となる。原住民文化、漢文化、日本文化に由来する文様が融合的に用いられている。この冠は、海洋資源への敬意を喚起するものである。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Crown of the Sea General パブリックアートインスタレーションは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Crown of the Sea General パブリックアートインスタレーションは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Crown of the Sea General パブリックアートインスタレーションは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Located in Kouhu Township, Yunlin County, it not only takes on the elements from patterns of various ethnic groups, but is also equipped with practical functions, including benches for resting in the interior of the installation which provide sun-ray-shielding function, and white gravels paved around for children to play with which enhances the chances to interact with people and then to pay attention to issues of environmental protection and the ocean.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The installation measures 10 meters long, 3 meters wide, and 4 meters tall. We apply the common construction method of Taiwanese modern temple roof, which comes in dragons and phoenixes, and also take the features of materials into consideration. Besides, artisans who are expert on making the exterior of temples such as legendary figures, statue of deities, auspicious animals are invited to work together.
- Tags
- Installation art, Gazebo, Multi-cultural groups, Marine Resources, Environmental protection issue
- Production Technology
- We took stainless steel bar and net as the frame, cement mortar as the molding material. The surfaces were applied with glossy glaze tiles, fragmented ceramics and close-lightly pebbles, and pottery plates as well as pot lids were embedded in as design to increase fun. Then mirror-pane glass formed the exterior, strengthening the perception toward the combination of tradition and modern.
- Design Challenge
- Trying to combine modern art design and traditional craft, the design team especially invited molding masters and fragmented ceramic artisans constructing temples in southern Taiwan. Because of that, the design team spent a great amount of time communicating construction methods and related details, including design proportion, fragmented ceramic coloring, format, construction procedures, etc., which challenged the past designing and constructing experience of the designers and artisans.
- Research
- The figure was set in the elements from mythologies. The crown came from Giant Groupers, which is a part of Taiwanese aquaculture. Indigenous, Han, and Japanese signs are introduced. The theme color is shades of red, which is a symbol of luck and happiness in Taiwan; black, white, and golden frame reveals a sense of exquisiteness from Japanese culture; the Mountain Patterns, which belongs to indigenous tribes in Taiwan, taking blue, green, and orange to represent atmosphere, sea, and land.
- Inspiration
- In order to remind people of the importance of respect while using marine resources, the idea of the Sea General came from the traditional folk religion, the Sea Goddess, Mazu. It symbolizes that to save the environment damaged by human beings, the Sea General sacrifice its own life and leave behind the crown to remind people of the meaning of cherishing the planet, correlating with the issue of marine resources preservation and climate change.
- Project Duration
- The project finished in November, 2019 in Yunlin County, Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- Crown of the Sea General looks like a character coming out from fantasy novels, deepens the visual perception to reach the goal of warning people that our future environment might face the fightback of nature. As for the colors, the design team chose to use prevailing decoration elements from traditional Taiwanese temples and deity statues and particularly commissioned professional Koji Pottery workmen to produce low temperature glaze kilning fragmented ceramic and tiles.
- Team Members
- Yu-Liang Chen
- Image Credits
- Cheng-Mao Liu
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