3D: Sculpture, Product Design, Furniture and MORE: Artist Research 1: Berndnaut Smilde

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Artist Research 1: Berndnaut Smilde

Article I Found: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/artist-berndnaut-smilde-creates-indoor-clouds/2012/03/13/gIQA7yAT9R_blog.html

His Website: http://www.berndnaut.nl

Berndnaut is a Dutch artist from Amsterdam. He creates a bunch of really cool installations with these ventilation systems and recenetly did the pieces where he created nimbus clouds inside a room. He used science! He controlled the humidity and all this other stuff in the room and released a burst of mist and came together to make this cloud inside the room.

While this may not be a sculpture per say but it is a three-dimensional work. It only lasts for a second but it does focus alot on the space it occupies. It's one of those pieces of work that you have to experience, but the photographs alone are just as surreal. It almosts starts to blend performance art and sculpture, the performance being the sculpture disappearing. Quote by him about the piece.“It’s there for a brief moment and then the cloud falls apart. It’s about the potential of the idea, but in the end it will never function.” I really enjoy looking at the photographs because they're very surreal and dreamlike which is an important aspect of my artwork.