The best art installations in Burning Man history

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

A celebration of art and extreme expression, the annual Burning Man art festival draws thousands of people to the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada, USA. Thousands of festival participants - burners - make a pilgrimage to the Black Rock desert to take part in collaborative work, show their creativity and assert themselves.

Burning Man brings together people of different spirits, passionate about one common cause, allows you to reveal their spontaneity and instill responsibility in them. The Burners themselves call on the community to self-expression, openness, sometimes absurdity, which is embodied in art in the form of extreme art installations, impressive figures, grandiose statues and shocking constructions.

13 works became the best in the history of the art festival:

Installation Uchronia was created in 2006 for the Burning Man Festival in Nevada by Belgian artist and designer Arne Quinze. For this work, the technique of "bar" weaving was used. The gigantic structure, which the author dubbed "a message from the future enclosed in a huge sculpture", was ceremoniously burned at the end of the festival.

Steampunk Tree House - combines elements of nature and urban industrial society.

Temples have been erected since 2000 and are solemnly burned along with the figure of a Man, thus becoming a familiar ritual of the festival.

The Californians, led by Mike Ross, unveiled a huge statue of trucks - the Big Rig Jig.

The Serpent Mother art figure, 168 feet high and weighing ten tons in the form of a skeleton of a snake, is one of the most striking examples of kinetic art, where an aesthetic effect is created using moving installations.

Homouroboros - Creative by Peter Hudson. It is a massive zoetrope (which means "live spin"), which is propelled by the participants themselves.

Crafted from 6,000 dynamic colored light bulbs, the 8-foot Big Round Cubatron presents a phenomenal and impressive luminous scene.

Occupying a large area, the Temple of Forgiveness has four huge entrances leading to a central altar that allows energy to flow from all directions. This installation is a metaphor for the feeling of lightness that comes to us after the act of forgiveness, when we also free ourselves from negative emotions.

The Crude Awakening used 900 gallons of jet fuel and 2,000 gallons of liquid propane. It was the biggest flame in the history of the festival.

The image of the next construction resembles a DNA double helix. Duel Nature is the creation of Kate Radenbush. A 30-foot-wide figure made of metal and a red mirror, a kind of meditation on the duality of nature and opposing forces.

A whimsical installation called "I. T." resembles horrible aliens from science fiction films. The creature's creator has put all its functionality into the creature's single red eye, which tracks down oncoming visitors.

The Temple of Stars structure is a large main structure that is connected to the smaller temples by a system of walkways, bridges, artificial gardens and benches for visitors to contemplate the creation.