In addition to their wall-based works and tabletop objects, CHIAOZZA maintains a site-specific practice featuring murals, installations and large-scale sculpture. Below we highlight the making and inspiration behind a few of their projects, from Chiaozza Garden at Coachella to The Invisible Traveler at Hermés Shanghai.
“Chiaozza Garden is a large-scale immersive installation created for the 2017 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Like a mirage or a superbloom, the 32 ten- to forty-foot-tall sprouting sculptures create a fleeting hallucination that encourages an appreciation of the present moment and carves out a space to explore, gather, rest, or look around and engage friends, strangers, and the world around us.”
“Our window design for Hermès Maison Shanghai is titled The Invisible Traveler. This window is The Ancient Cave at Dusk. The arched ‘portal’ at the center of the cave is a link to The Future Forest at Moonrise, the window scene at the opposite end of the building. Our traveler is nowhere to be seen and, having shed their belongings, has dove into the dream space beyond the cave.”
“'Paper Islands' is series of painted papier-mâché sculptures that explore the imagery of imaginary plants and geological formations through accretion of form and material. The surface of the sculpture becomes a three-dimensional canvas for discovering color and seeking magic, richness, and playfulness in a new picture plane.”
“Gemels are an on-going series of drawings, paintings, and sculptures abstracting natural tree forms into reduced, minimal, and surreal shapes and compositions. Inspired by the perseverance of nature and its ability to evolve, adapt, and 'bounce back' against all odds, this series draws formal inspiration from natural observations made while walking and hiking”
Paulina Ho shows us inside the Winter Corn Place, the site of her self-directed artist residency in Taos, New Mexico.
