La photographe Angela Kelly basée à Washington a profité des températures glaciales de ce début d’année pour réaliser cette série “Frozen Bubble”, proposant d’immortaliser la transformation de bulles de savon en fragiles sphères glacées. De magnifiques créations à découvrir dans une série d’images dans la suite.
Japanese artist Kohei Nawa filled a dark room with billowing clouds of foam for this art exhibition in Aichi, Japan (+ slideshow).
Kohei Nawa used a mixture of detergent, glycerin and water to create the bubbly forms of his installation, entitled Foam.
Described by the artist as being “like the landscape of a primordial planet”, the large cloud-like forms were pumped up from the floor in eight different locations, creating a scene that was constantly in motion inside an otherwise black room.
The artist experimented with different quantities of the three ingredients to create a foam stiff enough to hold a shape without being affected by gravity.
“Small cells bubble up ceaselessly with the slight oscillations of a liquid,” said Nawa, explaining the process. “The cells gather together, totally covering the liquid as they spontaneously form a foam, an organically structured conglomeration of cells.”
“The risen volumes of foam link together and reach saturation, but continue to swell, occasionally losing vitality and spreading out over the ground,” he added.
The exhibition was presented in Autumn 2013 as part of the Aichi Triennale, an art exhibition in Nagoya, Japan.
Photography is by Nobutada Omoto.
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Le collectif A Common Future a imaginé cette superbe vidéo appelée The Bubble. Tournée avec une caméra RED Epic, cette création reposante et invitant à la méditation nous montre l’envol d’une bulle de savon au cœur d’une forêt. A découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
Après son excellente série Soap Bubbles, le photographe suisse Fabian Oefner revient avec Dancing Colors. Ce dernier a placé des pigments de différentes couleurs sur une enceinte et a capturé le moment où l’onde fait voler les pigments. Une idée simple très bien exécutée à découvrir dans la suite.
Le studio de design graphique espagnol Lo Siento a pu concevoir pour le magazine japonais « +81 Magazine » cette couverture contenant du papier bulles dont certaines contiennent de la peinture injectée pour créer une typographie très réussie. Une idée ingénieuse à découvrir avec différentes images dans la suite.
Le photographe suisse Fabian Oefner nous propose de découvrir son projet « Iridient » axé sur l’éclatement de bulles de savon. Avec des couleurs incroyables, l’artiste nous propose des clichés magnifiques où la question du timing pour la photographie a été cruciale. Plus d’images dans la suite.
Dutch firm DUS Architects have created a pavilion made of bubbles.
Visitors to a Rotterdam square had to construct the soapy walls themselves by lifting metal frames from five-sided steel pools.
Anyone standing in one of these pools became enclosed inside one of sixteen massive bubbles.
The pavilion was open to the public for less than three weeks and was completed as part of the International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam, which continues until August.
We recently rounded up all our projects featuring bubbles, including a lamp that blows its own temporary shades. See them all here.
Here’s some more explanation from DUS Architects:
Announcing: The Bubble Building!
The World’s most temporary pavilion entirely made out of soap bubbles, in Rotterdam, NL
At the very centre of breezy Rotterdam, lies the world’s most fragile and temporary pavilion: The Bubble Building. The temporary pavilion does justice to its name, as it is entirely made of soap bubbles.
On invitation by the IABR (International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam) and the ZigZagCity Festival, DUS architects designed a pavilion that instigates interaction, as the pavilion only appears when visitors build it themselves. The Bubble Building opened to the public on April 20th and can still be visited until Sunday May 6th, at the Karel Doormanhof in Rotterdam, NL.
The Bubble Building is made from 16 hexagonal shaped mirroring ponds; a shape derived from the natural shape of connected foam bubbles. Positioned in a square plan, the steel ponds create a 35 m2 reflective soap surface, strong enough to carry human weight. This creates a surreal scene, as visitors wearing rubber boots seem to stand on a reflective water surface. No sign of a pavilion, just a few handlebars that hint at what needs to be done.. What happens next, is an instant spectacle: When visitors pull up the handlebars, massive soap walls emerge in a split second. The soap walls appear as super slim glass, wavy, curvaceous, and always different; A multitude of soap walls and a rainbow of colours. Old and young join in to make the pavilion appear, over and over again.
Economic bubble
While the building is temporary, it refers to monumental architectural themes such as the re-building of Rotterdam. In order to make the building appear, you must erect it yourself, until it pops again. This way, the Bubble Building also is a reference to the current bursting of the economic bubble. Moreover, the Bubble Building is about collective building, as it takes at least two people to erect one cell of the pavilion. The more people join in, the larger the pavilion becomes.
Mental Monument
Visitors are invited to eternalize their own momentary version of the pavilion in a bubble snapshot, and upload these images to the ZigZagCity website. Online, a multitude of different bubble buildings appear. In these pictures lies the true beauty of the pavilion: the remembrance. As ultimately, the Bubble Building is about beauty.
It is said that temporary experiences are perceived as more beautiful, because they only last for a short time. Rotterdam philosopher Erasmus said ‘Homo Bulla Est’ – ‘man is a soap Bubble’. Life is momentary. So go build the Bubble Building, because it will only be there for an instant!
Milan 2012: Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc presented a set of outdoor furniture and lamps like huge pink bubbles at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan.
The Summertime collection includes folding chairs with metallic pink frames and black leather seats, and a table with turnkeys at the sides so the top flips upright to become a blackboard.
The Bubble lamps are blown from pink glass with black holders and come in 45 or 60cm diameters.
See more work by Nika Zupanc on Dezeen here.
Bubble lamps were also presented by Swedish designers Front at Spazio Rossana Orlandi, although theirs blow actual soap bubbles every few seconds – check it out here.
The Salone Internazionale del Mobile took place from 17 to 22 April. See all our stories about Milan 2012 here, and check out photos on Facebook and Pinterest.
Top image is by Saša Hess. Product photos are by Dragan Arrigler.
Here are some more details from Zupanc:
Another year, and a bunch of new poems for taking Milan out of its comfort zone. This time, Nika Zupanc is bringing with her a squat of innocent looking pieces that mindfully explore the limits of the industry when it comes to emotional effect and the juxtaposition of materials.
Zupanc has no intention of taking anything lightly so she makes something as forgiving as summer a hostage for the quest of finding novel expressions to transgress the rationalism, utilitarism and practical common sense. To accomplish this, she uses her poetic judgment, inner battles with stereotypes and long-lasting affairs with technologies.
The ultimate design repertoire, consisting of a lamp, a chair and a table, are now taken into a completely wild territory: the summery outdoors. Numerous interpretations of their generic nature equip the objects with a disturbing beauty and defamiliarization of collective summer memories brings an uncanny allure to the Summertime collection. The Bubble lamps are made of an extraordinary pink glass, produced by Vistosi brand with centenary tradition in glass of Murano for Nika Zupanc. But the flourish blow up of rosa antico is what makes them an intruder to the mise-en-scène of dying glory of Lord Byron’s Venice. Foldable Summertime chairs with their red gold embroidered seat cushions are unsettlingly engaging, while the Summertime table in its noir surface and toy-like winding mechanism hides the potential of an impromptu blackboard or a mirror, your own private vanity fair.
Summertime
The sweet feeling of forever and the permanent bitter lack of nowness are the main characteristics that Nika Zupanc extracts from summer and multiplies in her objects du jour.
The Summertime pieces are stripped down to pure form, to their utilitarian value only to be inflated with poetic longing.
In the quest of finding new ways to transgress the practical common sense and to test its limits of emotive effects, Zupanc argues technologies and ways predominantly associated with the so called boys club and their playground. To accomplish this, she uses her poetic judgment, inner battles with stereotypes and long-lasting affairs with technologies.
The repertoire with which Nika Zupanc likes to play hard consists of a lamp, a chair and a table. A true classic is this time taken into a completely wild territory: the summery outdoors, resulting in numerous interpretations of their generic nature. The iconic summer elements and sounds of seagulls have to survive in a new context. Defamiliarization of viewer’s perception of these memories is something that brings an uncanny allure to the collection.
The Bubble lamps are made of an extraordinary pink glass, produced by Vistosi brand with centenary tradition in glass of Murano for Nika Zupanc. But the flourish blow up of rosa antico is what makes them an intruder to the mise-en-scène of dying glory of Lord Byron’s Venice. Foldable Summertime chairs with their red gold embroidered ancors and tubular metal frames are unsettlingly engaging, while the Summertime table in its noir surface and toy-like winding mechanism hides the potential of an impromptu blackboard or a mirror, your own private vanity fair.
Bubble lamp – a natural born intruder
Taking Venetian street lamps for a hostage of its poetic needs is what you will come to expect from this illuminator of the most mischievous kind. That it unprecedentedly blows up the proportions of Murano glass and does so in pink implies its role of an invader to the mise-en-scène of Lord Byron‘s Venice. Perfectly shaped, it silently glows with no buzz or fuzz, like it is just waiting for the next vaporetto. Its misplaced beauty is noticed instantly, even from across the room.
Materials: glass, metal
Glass blowing produced by Vistosi brand with centenary tradition in glass of Murano.
Colours: pink glass, black lamp holder
Lamp diameter: 60 and 45 cm
Summertime chair – the disruption of the outdoors
With its strong foldable tubular metal frame it could have been just another well-behaved object, resisting the demanding life in lush gardens, however, it has a more subversive role to play. Dipped in red gold colour it brings an uncanny allure to the sweet tackiness of summer memories. In the meantime the embroidery of an iconic summer visual, an anchor, stirs up a palette of novel connotations, finally allowing you to have an affair with this post-suburban bad boy gone red gold.
Materials: tubular metal frame, shark outdoor textile, embroidery
Colours: black upholstery, red gold frame
Summertime table – an afternoon painted noir
Designed as a surface of purification and temptation, it makes a staggering first impression and a lifelong obsession. Of course it can take all the challenges of a sleek coffee table, but its toy-like winding mechanisms hint at the potential of switching perspectives. On the one side it is, how very cerebral, an impromptu blackboard for taking down emotional bits and bobs. On the other, your own private vanity fair with a full length mirror, waiting for the first blink of an eye.
Materials: tubular metal frame, enameled tin plates, mirror foil
Colours: blackboard, red gold legs
Dezeen archive: this week in Milan a lamp that blows bubbles attracted a lot of attention, so we’ve grouped together all of our stories about bubbles made from soap, plastic or otherwise. See all the stories »
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