Dans cette 5ème vidéo tirée de sa série « Aqueous » qu’il a débutée en 2005, le photographe anglais Mark Mawson donne une bonne dose de couleurs qui éclatent en arcs-en-ciel, en nuages ou sous forme de champignons sur vos visages. Délicat, majestueux et profond. L’ensemble est disponible ci-dessous.
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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Dans cette série baptisée The Kingdom, le français Seb Janiak superpose de nombreuses images de façon à produire ces horizons de nuages menaçants. Dans ses photographies souvent qualifiées d’hyperréalistes, il présente une nature omnipotente quasi mystique dans un monde obscur. Une très belle série à découvrir.
A Dutch artist has captured a fluffy white cloud in a beaux-arts style room in San Francisco for the latest in his series of photographs of indoor clouds (+ slideshow + interview).
Berndnaut Smilde creates his indoor clouds using a smoke machine. He adjusts the humidity of the room by spraying water, and reduces the temperature – this allows the smoke to take a cloud-like shape for just long enough to be photographed before it dissipates.
“It has to be cold, damp and really wet, so I’m moisturising the air as much as possible,” Smilde said in an interview with the BBC. “The moisture will stick to the smoke, making it heavier.”
“I cannot really control the cloud – it’s different every time. So, I create hundreds and hundreds [of images] and select just one to be the [final] work,” Smilde said.
Smilde spoke to Dezeen about his latest installation, Nimbus Green Room, which he created at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, “The space is kitsch, but it has great architectural ornaments,” Smilde said.
“As you probably know the Green Room is an American interpretation of the mirror room [Hall of Mirrors] in the Palace of Versailles, France. Its interior is classic and symmetrical, and represents perfection,” he added. “The green walls and features such as the chandeliers almost look like they’ve turned into plastic because of the extreme sharpness of the photographs.”
For his Nimbus photography series, Smilde has created indoor clouds within buildings including the Hotel MariaKapel in the Netherlands and Aspremont-Lynden Castle in Belgium.
Smilde’s clouds were listed by TIME Magazine as one of the top 10 inventions of 2012.
Here’s a BBC interview, where Smilde discusses how he makes the clouds:
Other stories we’ve posted on Dezeen recently include a cloud-shaped holiday cabin in south-west France, a warehouse filled with luminous clouds in Toronto and a weather-forecasting lamp that creates an indoor cloud to warn of grey skies outside.
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Photographs are courtesy of Ronchini Gallery.
Here’s the full interview with Smilde:
Kate Andrews: Can you tell us about the motivations behind your cloud installations? How did this start?
Berndnaut Smilde: The idea started when I was working in a small scale space for art projects. Model spaces are a recurring subject in my work. Because you have total control over these spaces it enables you to create an ideal situation. This is one of the reasons I think a model can stand for an idea. I wanted to see if it would be possible to exhibit a raincloud. I’ve modelled the exhibition space after my ideal perception of a museum space and wanted to create an ominous situation.
Kate Andrews: What’s unique about the Nimbus Green Room from your other installations? Can you tell us a little about the building and the interior space?
Berndnaut Smilde: The Green Room is a great example of a representation of an ideal space. As you probably know the Green Room is an (American) interpretation of the mirror room in the castle of Versailles. Its interior is classic and symmetrical and represents perfection.
The space is kitsch but it has great architectural ornaments. The materiality of the room really stands out and in the photographs. The green walls and features such as the chandeliers almost look like they’ve turned into plastic because of the extreme sharpness of the photographs.
I also like the reflection in the mirror. The room continues and you can see the backside of the cloud reflecting in it providing the work with an extra dimension.
Kate Andrews: Do you take your own photography?
Berndnaut Smilde: I am not a photographer and always work with local professionals. In San Francisco I worked with RJ Muna. He was great to work with and had fantastic equipment.
Kate Andrews: How does architecture and interior space affect your work?
Berndnaut Smilde: My work is often about situations that deal with duality. They question: inside and outside, size, the function of materials and architectural elements. Lots of time I work in a site-specific way reacting to the architecture or history of a location.
I am interested in in-between situations and situations that don’t really have a function yet and are to me therefore open for interpretation. Sometimes I create these situations, like I did with the clouds.
I also like to collect these moments when I see one. For instance the work Bored Art (2008) represents a ‘found situation’ were a painting is resting against the wall for a brief abandoned moment. Here it is the context of its surrounding (the museum) that changes the interpretation of this painting and situation.
Kate Andrews: What will you be working on next?
Berndnaut Smilde: I am preparing for a project at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, where I will be creating an exhibition with their collection and my work.
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Le photographe allemand Jakob Wagner présente des photographies aérienne prises avec un grand angle. Issues de deux de ses séries, Sea of Clouds et Caribbean Sea, les paysages confondent ciel et terre tant les nuages semblent former vagues et remous. Une série de photographies sublimes à découvrir dans la suite.
Appelée sobrement « Cloud I Meteoros », cette superbe sculpture pensée par le studio Ora composé de Lucy et Jorge Orta a été installée à la station de train St Pancras à Londres. Permettant d’apporter un peu de poésie et de rêverie aux voyageurs, cette création est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article en images.
Focus sur ce studio Sophie Valla Architects, basé à Amsterdam, et qui a réalisé cette superbe installation lumineuse appelée « LED Cloud ». Proposant un puzzle géant de 60 panneaux indépendants, elle compose ainsi un ciel artificiel aux multiples couleurs de 400m2. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.
Canadian interior designers Mason Studio filled a warehouse with luminous clouds as a calming space amid the hustle and bustle of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival last month (+ slideshow).
Behind layers of scrunched-up tissue paper, the installation was filled with motion-sensitive devices that triggered a system of concealed lighting.
As visitors approached, each cloud would start to glow, but when that person walked away the lights would slowly die down.
“The installation was an attempt to pull festival goers out of the commotion and noise that inevitably surround design festivals, to provide a space of tranquil and rest, if even for a fleeting moment,” explains Mason Studio.
Gentle music accompanied the installation, helping to block out the noise from outside.
The Toronto Design Offsite Festival ran from 21 to 27 January as a showcase of the best in Canadian design. Projects on show included a matte steel sink with a polished patch in the centre that provides a mirror.
Clouds have inspired a number of design installations in recent years. Makoto Tanijiri of Suppose Design Office filled an exhibition with clouds back in 2009, while Tokujin Yoshioka filled a showroom with mist in 2011. See more weather-related design on Dezeen.
Photography is by Scott Norsworthy.
Here’s a few words from Mason Studio:
Mason Studio, the Toronto-based interior design firm, created a large series of gentle, cloud-like objects to form a site-specific installation nestled in a side-street warehouse. In part of Toronto Design Offsite Festival ’13, the installation was an attempt to pull festival goers out of the commotion and noise that inevitably surround design festivals, to provide a space of tranquil and rest, if even for a fleeting moment.
Fabricated from large sheets of semi-transparent tissue paper, the warehouse was engulfed with the billowing forms to submerge the visitors in a glow emulating the soft filtration of light by clouds at dusk. The ethereal installation was accompanied by a resonating soundscape, producing a numbing white noise to block any extraneous noises.
The motion-sensitive objects were reactive to the surrounding users and environment. Upon inspection, the forms gently intensified with light; walking away, they reverted back to neutral, leaving a trail of dark.
Soundscape produced by: aftermodernlab
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Focus sur le travail « Nuées », le nom de cette série de clichés réalisée par l’artiste français Laurent Millet. Inspiré par les écrits de Gaston Bachelard et passionné d’architecture, il délivre des images donnant l’impression qu’il capture les nuages. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.
Two updated tablets focused on content consumption
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