This was installed over the Amstel River from atop the Amsterdam Stopera. A unique lighting program integrates undulating colours reflected on the water below. The sculpture becomes an ethereal form that transforms day to night; in darkness it appears to float in thin air.

1.26 Amsterdam, 2012-2013

This sculpture in downtown Melbourne was created to evoke a sense of nature in the midst of city bustle.

Little Ballroom, 2012

Washed Up addresses the issue of plastic pollution making its way across the ocean and onto the shores of Sian Ka’an, a Unesco World Heritage Site and Mexico’s largest federally protected reserve.

Duran identified plastic waste from 50 nations on six continents washed ashore on one stretch of coast, and he has used this international debris to create a series of site-specific installations. 

Algas, 2011, from the series Washed Up.

The alchemy of Washed Up lies not only in converting a trashed landscape, but also in the project’s potential to raise awareness and change our relationship to consumption and waste.

Nubes, 2011, from the series Washed Up.

The artists painted every surface of the building, thus recontextualising the church – providing new meaning to viewers. The project was the first step to bringing life and colour into an area in transition, one with huge potential to be a locus for artists and art.

700 Delaware, 2012

Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn’t discriminate or practise politics. The friendly, floating duck is an inflatable, based on the standard rubber duck model that children from all four corners of the world are familiar with.

The impressive rubber duck has travelled to many different cities – Auckland, Sao Paulo, Osaka – and offers a positive artistic statement that immediately connects people to their childhood.

Now whose arm do we have to bend to get Rubber Duck to Singapore?

“I value the connection between the place and the viewer who uses these tools (that is to say, who views my art). In fact, the appreciation of art is for me, more than anything, that singularly unique event or chance happening that occurs when the artwork and the viewer are brought together,” says Konoike.

Mirrored Wolf, 2011

Private Moon is a visual poem telling the story of a man who met the Moon and stayed with her for the rest of his life. After she hid from the sun in a dark and damp tunnel, she came to this man’s house. And together they traversed the world.

Private Moon, 2003. Wooden bridge on Peredelkino village, near Moscow, Russia.

Each photograph is a poetic tale, a poem in its own right.

Private Moon in the Arctic, 2010. The Moon in front of Monaco Glacier, Liefdefjorden, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway.

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