big big big

I have always loved large scale installations. A professor I had my freshman year of college inspired me to always go bigger. Big, big, big, he'd say. Unless it's overpowering you can't feel it. Now I don't always believe that things must overpower you to make you truly feel its presence, it's idea can be bigger than it's size. The size of your concept must almost always, undoubtedly, outshine everything else. Now there are some people who work with size and it's incredible: Richard Serra, David Smith, Jeff Koons, Vik Muniz (who is AMAZING if you're into re-purposed art, that link goes to a pic from his junkyard series, a replication of Caravaggio's Narcissus), and my new favorite -- photographer Wim Tellier who works out of Belgium and the Netherlands (We all know Netherlandish art has made its presence known for centuries). Here's a link to his new project proposal: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28867/photographer-wim-tellier-plans-south-pole-installation/. This is going to be the largest installation in the South Pole ever to be done. Here's a peek at one of his older installations, a blown up image of a baby superimposed onto a bed a rubber ducks.