Güvenç Özel–Cyber, a Turkish architect and artist who created a 60-foot-tall walk-through piece called “Holoflux,” is also happy to have his work at the festival and to see fans interact with it. With the help of hidden wheels the shapes move and spin at night as light projections add to the motion. “Because the sculptures are so big, when you’re there it seems like you are surrounded by these beings that have come from another dimension to celebrate peace, love and music with you,” said the Sri Lankan-born artist, who lives and works in Vietnam.Īlso making his debut at the festival is French-born Vincent Leroy whose bold and colorful piece is titled “Molecular Cloud.” This installation is made up of giant pink and reflective spheres attached together to form a cloud-like object. Like the other art on the festival grounds, his piece transforms at night when spotlights illuminate the figures. “We have stories of flying machines and portals and giants and all this kind of stuff, so with my artwork what I try to do is combine these worlds.” “I was always drawn to the supernatural,” he explained. They were inspired by South Asian mythology and Sri Lankan folk lore. The piece is called “The Messengers” and it’s made up of three monolithic figures that are between 75 and 80-feet-tall. He created three towering, colorful figures that may look like just giant robots or action figures, but they have a much deeper meaning.

When people see my artwork I hope they feel a sense of awe and maybe spark something from their imagination,” said KumKum Fernando, one of the four new artists at the festival this year. “I’m really grateful and over the moon about being part of this. And those new artists know that their works have the possibility of becoming Coachella landmarks like Bose’s balloons and the Spectra structure. While these familiar art pieces and a few others return to Coachella year after year, the polo fields are also dotted with fresh and inspiring pieces.

“They were tiny little chains of balloons and I remember seeing the shadow of me and my bicycle and all of the balloons in the sky going straight up and it was pretty impressive for something I accidently threw together in a few minutes,” he said. It’s one of those things where I had a moment where I thought it could be this awesome, and it’s actually become that,” said Bose, who originally came up with the idea for the piece at Burning Man when he tied a few balloons to his bike.

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