Iron Fine Arts and Art Installation Design · 2020
Emperor's Time Machine Sculpture
by Lin Lin
- A' Design Award 2020 Iron Winner in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: Marriott Group W hotel Xi'an
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 11,444
- Verification code 4907999152 · Verify this award
About Emperor's Time Machine Sculpture
This sculpture of the Emperor's Time Machine which is also his time machine was conceived and represent the Emperor’s love of travel. The car was built by using many sculptural techniques including materials such as stainless steel, LED light and poly-chrome. The effect of these materials give the concept of the sculpture pure fantasy. This sculpture is one of the main artistic expressions of Xi’an W hotel. The research into this project gives the sculpture the feeling of a well conceived artistic expression of the Tang Dynasty.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- In the fictional time, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty sat on the time machine, curious about it and travel time to the modern century. His car is combined with wheels and jets which is a interesting contemporary art installation. It is like a time machine that dramatically landed in W. The emperor who stepped on the skateboard wondered where he is. Image the pink flowers of the sky are falling around the car. Chinese contemporary artists and international graffiti artists have worked hard together for several months.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- W4140 mm*D2510mm*H3150mm
- Tags
- Local art, Hotel art, Fun, Attracted
- Production Technology
- Stainless steel, Graffiti
- Design Challenge
- The land of peach blossoms , peach trees, peach blossoms, peaches, and the peach seeds are infinitely transformed. With the contemporary art landscape that will constitutes the architectural space.
- Project Duration
- The project started in the summer of 2017 in Xi'an and finished in August 2018 in Xi'an. By August 2019, the W Hotel has been open for one year.
- Operation Flow
- This sculpture combined with art and fun, gtuests will attract by its interesting shape, and it is just like a time machine that will make all guests will like to travel back to Tang Dynasty, but with its modern express, guests can not help to take photos, so it could become a hot spot in W hotel. Pepole would love to share this sculpture to their friends.
- Research
- A wormhole appeared in parallel time and space between Xi’an W and Tang Dynasty. We use artistic imagery built to instantly enter the Tang Dynasty. With hundreds of dancing horses, strolling in Chang’an, listening to music, watching from the distance of the smile of the big Ming Palace’s tail, closely watching the Danfengmen’s peach petals flying. Thus, Xi’an W, it is a beautiful floating sky garden.
- Inspiration
- Xi'an W is at the beginning of the great silk road, full of creative art potential, we study through the Tang Dynasty with great enthusiasm and curious. With the vivid culture, we create the unique story of if and tells people a wonderfrul story. This work is inspired by the Emperor's trip mode, we combined the modern idea with it and created this time machine car just let guests feel like the emperor is driving it from Tang Dynasty to our century.
- Patents
- Patented: Emperor's Time Machine, Patent Number: ZL 2018 3 0759148.2. Patent Holder: Lin Lin, Year:2018, Jurisdiction: Shenzhen, China. For copyrights: Copyrights belong to Lin Lin, 2018