Video: A cloud in pants. Installation Nimbus by Berndnaut Smilde
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the minds of most people on Earth, clouds - these are objects that soar somewhere very high, into which you can get only by plane or helicopter. But a Dutch artist Berndnaut smilde has his own opinion on this matter and illustrates it with the help of Nimbus installations … Different artists have different ideas about clouds. For example, Tomas Saraceno reproduces them in the form of huge inflatable spheres, thus creating installations for Cloud Cities. But the Dutchman Berndnaut Smilde is trying to generate the most real (judging by their appearance) clouds. Moreover, he does it right in the premises of art museums and galleries.
“You may think of clouds and clouds as a sign of impending disaster, but for me as a Dutch resident, they are an integral part of the Dutch landscape. But, if its other elements, such as mills, tulips and water towers, can be reproduced with your own hands, then with clouds everything is much more complicated. That is why I decided to create the installation Nimbus, which is like clouds right in the museum hall”- this is how Berndnaut Smilde explains his idea.
So now visitors to the Probe art gallery in Amsterdam can go to the clouds without leaving the museum building. However, the Nimbus installation was made by Berndnaut Smilde not from real water vapor, but from textile elements, a substance similar in its characteristics to cotton wool. However, if you do not touch the work of the Dutch artist with your hands, you will not feel the difference, at least visually.
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