Video: Snowfall in the middle of hot summer. Installation by Tokujin Yoshioka
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Although summer is on the calendar and the season of vacations and seaside resorts is in full swing, renowned Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka invites us to take a short trip into winter. The easiest way to do this is for the residents of Tokyo: instead of packing their bags and going to cold countries, they can simply come to the Mori Art Museum, where the author's installation "The Snow" is presented, which, however, consists not of snowflakes, but of snow-white bird fluff.
"Snow" is a 15-meter-long transparent tank containing hundreds of kilograms of fluff. The installation is not static: under the influence of air currents, the lightest fluffs are constantly in motion, flying up and slowly falling, like real snowflakes. According to Tokujin Yoshioki, he chose fluff as the basis for his work, as he considers it to be the lightest material in existence today. The purpose of this piece of art is surprisingly simple: the author wanted to show the audience the unimaginable beauty of natural phenomena. At the same time, Tokujin believes that his installation personifies more people's memories of snowfall than real snow.
The designer considers nature to be the main source of beauty in our life, but at the same time emphasizes that in his works he seeks not so much to reflect nature itself, but to understand how a person perceives its phenomena. “Sunshine, light breeze, harmony created by leaves - many natural phenomena affect our feelings and emotions. I do not try to recreate them all, but only choose the elements that inspire our hearts."
The Snow installation is part of the Sensing Nature exhibition at Tokyo's Mori Art Museum from June 24 to November 7, 2010.
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