Catalyst - a person or a thing that causes a change. This blog is meant as a collection of those people and things that inspire, stir up, create beauty and bring passion & spirit to this world.
A while back in my first Cloud Imagination article, I wrote about clouds and how they can spark your imaginiation through the forms that it can take. I mentioned two creative "Cloud" pieces - the "Cloud - Made of More" advertisement for Guinness by AMV BBDO UK and the photographs by Christopher Jonassen
Now I would like to add another artist to this "Cloud" repertoire! Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde invites clouds into indoor spaces and takes their picture before they mysteriously vanish. You can go see his work at the Ronchini Gallery in London where he is featured in the exhibition The Uncanny: Adeline de Monseignat and Berndnaut Smilde that opens to the public on the 16th of January.
Berndnaut Smilde's Nimbus II
‘Dutch artist, Berndnaut Smilde produces striking
images of ‘real’ Nimbus clouds suspended within empty rooms. Using a fog machine,
he carefully adjusts the temperature and humidity to produce clouds just long
enough to be photographed. There is a unique ephemeral aspect to the work where
the photograph captures a very brief moment before the cloud dissipates and
disappears again as mysteriously as it was formed. His choice of lighting and
viewing aspect enables him to create a representation of the cloud’s
physicality. Smilde’s work looks at transience and challenges the physicality
of space.’ –text from the website of the Ronchini Gallery
The following video show's the artist at work (the video is in Dutch)
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