Monika Grzymala is a Polish-born, now-German installation artist based out of Berlin. She has created the largest and most intricate installation pieces that I've ever seen, stretching through museums from room to room. The installations of hers that I'll be focusing on are her massive tape sculptures, composed of miles of tape stuck straight to the walls.
Grzymala seems to draw heavily from her environment when making her pieces, responding to her surroundings as her main inspiration. In her recent installation
Ruptures in London's Drawing Room. She discusses how the composition of her pieces were based on her impressions of the London skyline...cool
Dazed Digital article about the exhibition.
She achieves a powerful sense of kinetic energy in her pieces. Her Aerial tape installations illustrate this especially well. The black tape is placed like a freeze-frame of falling water hitting ground or lines racing across wall.
Grzymala has taken a traditional boring and domestic material and applied it in a really cool way. She's realized the value of each tiny piece adding up to create a strong overall effect.
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