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Module
8 CLIL Art

A . D i s c u s s.
A. Discuss.
• Do you like art?
• What do you think of modern art?
• Do you think that some modern art is not art at all?
B. Look at the pictures. What is installation art? Read and check your answers.

INSTALLATION ART

Installation art is a kind of art that uses the area it’s in to help people enjoy
it. It isn’t just about making paintings or sculpture; installation art includes
exhibits with sound, performances, video and even the Internet. The people who
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experience the art often have to use different senses at once, not only sight,
but also hearing, smell and touch. You can find installation art in museums and
in public places, like parks and shopping centres where many people will see it.
Most art installations are temporary and stay at the site only for a few weeks or
months. The main point of installation art is for the people not to just look at it, 1
but to experience it and feel like they are a part of the art, too.

1 These days there are many artists who make installation art. Carsten Höller
displayed his Test Site in the main hall of the Tate Modern in London from
October 2006 to April 2007. Test Site was an installation of five large metal
slides that people could slide down for free.
2 Also in 2003 at the Tate Modern, artist Olafur Eliasson installed a glowing
sun in the room and a huge mirror on the ceiling. The room was also
filled with a mist made of sugar and water. The installation was called The
Weather Project and many visitors enjoyed lying on the floor and looking
up at their shadows on the ceiling.
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3 Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who made many famous
art installations all over the world. Some of their most famous exhibits
include: covering the Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont Neuf in Paris with
fabric, placing umbrellas in public places in California and Japan at the
same time, and wrapping almost 200 trees in a park in Basel, Switzerland.
Their last installation was The Gates in New York City’s Central Park. For
two weeks in February 2005, more than 7,500 orange-coloured fabric
‘gates’ were hung over the sidewalks of the park for people to walk
through. The gates stretched for nearly 23 miles and cost about 21 million
dollars to create. After Jeanne-Claude’s death in 2009, Christo continued
working, and in 2016 he created one of his most ambitious projects,
The Floating Piers, on Lake Iseo, Italy. Unfortunately, his death in 2020
prevented him from seeing the duo’s long-awaited L’Arc de Triomphe,
Wrapped project become a reality in 2021. This project involves covering
the arch with a silvery blue recyclable polypropylene fabric – nearly 25,000
square metres of it – held together with about 7,000 metres of red rope. 3

C. Read the text again and write T for True or F for False. PROJECT
1. You can see, hear and smell installation art.
2. Installation art only appears in public places. Give a presentation!
3. Installation art usually doesn’t last forever. Search the Internet and find
4. Carsten Höller installed slides outside the Tate information about another artistic
genre. Find interesting facts about its
Modern in 2006.
history as well as some well-known
5. Visitors didn’t have to pay to use the slides. artists that represent it. In addition,
6. Natural sunlight was used for The Weather Project. find some pictures of representative
pieces of art and give a presentation
7. Christo and Jeanne-Claude placed umbrellas on the
in class.
Pont Neuf.

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