{"id":295182,"date":"2026-01-21T04:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/295182\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T04:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:07:10","slug":"a-monumental-bisected-orb-by-spy-glows-amid-scaffolding-in-xian-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/295182\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monumental Bisected Orb by SpY Glows Amid Scaffolding in Xi&#8217;an \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/tags\/spy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">large-scale installations<\/a> incorporating a range of objects like metallic emergency blankets and orange traffic cones, <a href=\"https:\/\/spy-urbanart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SpY<\/a> prompts us to not only see our surroundings differently but also to immerse ourselves in his otherworldly interpretations of space and light.<\/p>\n<p>A recent work titled \u201cDivided\u201d towered over a public thoroughfare amid skyscrapers in Xi\u2019an, China. One part of a trilogy called Earth, comprising similar renditions of glowing orbs within scaffolding, \u201cDivided\u201d splits the sphere in half. Two identical sides sit within their own frameworks, open down the center so that visitors can immerse themselves in the illuminated corridor. SpY\u2019s urban interventions pop up in warehouses and along city promenades in cities around the world. See more on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/spy__studio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spy-divided-5.jpg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-468412\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1098\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spy-divided-5.jpg\" alt=\"A detail, looking up from from inside, of a large-scale installation by SpY of two glowing, red half-spheres within a metal framework\" class=\"wp-image-468417\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spy-divided-1.jpg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-468412\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spy-divided-1.jpg\" alt=\"A large-scale installation by SpY of two glowing, red half-spheres within a metal framework, viewed from afar amid the city buildings in Xi'an, China\" class=\"wp-image-468413\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spy-divided-4-e1768936054168.jpg\" class=\"swipebox\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-468412\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/spy-divided-4-e1768936054168.jpg\" alt=\"A large-scale installation by SpY of two glowing, red half-spheres within a metal framework\" class=\"wp-image-468416\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do stories and artists like this matter to you?<\/strong> Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"118516\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hide advertising<\/li>\n<li>Save your favorite articles<\/li>\n<li>Get 15% off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Shop<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Receive members-only newsletter<\/li>\n<li>Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Known for large-scale installations incorporating a range of objects like metallic emergency blankets and orange traffic cones, SpY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,31679,13465,17,11480,7601,42532],"class_list":["post-295182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-immersive","tag-installation","tag-ireland","tag-public-art","tag-sculpture","tag-spy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115931122460326015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}